The Spider Network
Autor David Enrichen Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2018
Suntem de părere că stabilitatea sistemului financiar global nu se sprijină pe algoritmi infailibili, ci pe integritatea unor funcționari adesea anonimi care pot fi manipulați cu o ușurință deconcertantă. Observăm cum The Spider Network demontează mitul eficienței bancare, dezvăluind cum rata Libor — fundamentul pentru împrumuturi de trilioane de dolari — a fost controlată de un grup bizar de traderi conduși de Tom Hayes, un matematician genial, dar instabil. Cititorul va învăța mecanismele exacte prin care o mână de oameni, folosind „rețeaua păianjen”, a reușit să vicieze un sistem întreg pentru profituri personale imense. Pe linia practică a volumului The Fix, dar cu un focus specific pe psihologia personajelor și pe eșecul sistemic de supraveghere, David Enrich construiește o narațiune care se simte ca un roman polițist de John le Carré, deși fiecare detaliu este factual. Această lucrare continuă direcția de investigație începută de autor în Dark Towers și Servants of the Damned, consolidând expertiza lui Enrich în expunerea corupției de la cel mai înalt nivel. Cartea nu este doar o cronică a lăcomiei, ci o lecție despre fragilitatea infrastructurii financiare pe care o considerăm, în mod eronat, sigură. Structura riguroasă a celor aproape 500 de pagini oferă o claritate rară asupra unui scandal care a redefinit reglementările bancare moderne.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0753557517
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Random House
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte oricărui profesionist din sectorul financiar sau juridic care dorește să înțeleagă dedesubturile scandalului Libor. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care vulnerabilitățile tehnice dintr-un sistem pot fi exploatate prin rețele de influență. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege de ce integritatea datelor și transparența sunt vitale în piețele de capital, oferind studii de caz reale despre consecințele fraudei sistemice.
Despre autor
David Enrich este editor de investigații economice la New York Times și un jurnalist de business multipremiat. Recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a transforma subiecte financiare complexe în narațiuni accesibile, Enrich a scris anterior bestsellerul Dark Towers, o analiză explozivă a Deutsche Bank, și Servants of the Damned, despre influența marilor firme de avocatură în justiția americană. Experiența sa de reporter la Wall Street Journal și premiile obținute pentru jurnalism de investigație îi conferă autoritatea necesară pentru a pătrunde în cele mai obscure colțuri ale lumii financiare, oferind cititorilor o rigoare documentară de neegalat.
Descriere scurtă
The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history. The paperback edition includes a new chapter discussing further fallout from the scandal.
In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the world’s largest financial institutions made a startling realization: Libor—the London interbank offered rate, which determines interest rates on trillions in loans worldwide—was set daily by a small group of easily manipulated functionaries. Tom Hayes, a brilliant but troubled mathematician, became the lynchpin of shadowy team that used hook and crook to take over the process and set rates that made them a fortune, no matter the cost to others. Among the motley crew was a French trader nicknamed “Gollum”; the broker “Abbo,” who liked to publicly strip naked when drinking; a Kazakh chicken farmer turned something short of financial whiz kid; an executive called “Clumpy” because of his patchwork hair loss; and a broker uncreatively nicknamed “Big Nose.” Eventually known as the “Spider Network,” Hayes’s circle generated untold riches —until it all unraveled in spectacularly vicious, backstabbing fashion.
Praised as reading “like a fast-paced John le Carré thriller” (New York Times), “compelling” (Washington Post) and “jaw-dropping” (Financial Times), The Spider Network is not only a rollicking account of the scam, but a provocative examination of a financial system that was warped and shady throughout.
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In 2006, an oddball group of bankers and traders made a startling realization: with some sly underhandedness, voluminous quantities of booze and strippers, the incompetence of authorities, and the eager support of an eccentric math genius, they could manipulate interest rates to their advantage. David Enrich’s page-turning account of their escapades—and the staggering costs to those who fell guilty to their rapacious operation—is not only a rollicking saga of greed and complicity, but a disturbing look inside a world where crookedness is often par for the course.
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“With an unerring eye for detail, Enrich shows in this masterful work how a toxic stew of greed, arrogance and a lust for power led to a criminal scheme of unparalleled dimensions. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the dirty underbelly of the financial world.” — Kurt Eichenwald, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Informant
“Mr. Enrich effectively uses the unique access he secured to the mildly autistic UBS trader, Tom Hayes, who became the fall guy for the unfolding scandal, to produce a surprisingly human narrative....” — Jonathan A. Knee, New York Times DealBook
“A damning look at the culture of trader chicanery… Enrich has sidestepped the temptation to slip into author-as-prosecutor mode, instead going the wry tour guide route to lucidly (and often hilariously) usher readers through the Looney Tunes world that wrought l’affaire Libor.” — John Helyar, coauthor of Barbarians at the Gate
“David Enrich is a masterful financial story teller using real time communications from the central figures. He weaves into his narrative not only what happened, but how it happened and why. Michael Lewis has a new rival.” — Sheila Bair, former chair of the FDIC and bestselling author of Bull by the Horns
“An absorbing read that provides both a meticulous dissection of an immense scandal as well as a fascinating human story.” — Bethany McLean, author of The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils Are Here
“Dare I say it, but The Spider Network will snare you in its web of deceit, lies, corruption, manipulation and colorful characters. David Enrich’s brilliant investigative expose will reverberate from Wall Street to Main Street.” — Harlan Coben, bestselling author of Home and Fool Me Once
“David Enrich has written an incredibly entertaining, globe-straddling inside account of how one trader turbocharged a greedy cabal that scammed savers and borrowers everywhere. A must read if you want to understand how big banks and traders really work.” — Marcus Brauchli, former Executive Editor of the Washington Post and Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal
“So how did a socially awkward English math whiz mastermind manipulation of lending rates on a global scale? … In David Enrich’s gripping tale, the characters have nicknames worthy of the Mafia, and their ethical compasses aren’t much better.” — Paul Ingrassia, Pulitzer Prize winner, bestselling author of Crash Course
“A thrilling tour de force of reporting, revelation and reasoning. For anyone who wants to understand what really went on inside a scam of epic proportions, The Spider Network is unmissable.” — Iain Martin, author of Crash Bang Wallop