The Spider Network
How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History
by David Enrich
Recommended by Marc Andreessen and Shankar Sharma
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Finance, and Business.
In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the largest financial institutions made a startling realization: Libor—the London interbank offered rate, which determines the interest rates on trillions in loans worldwide—was set daily by a small group of easily manipulated administrators, and that they could reap huge profit...
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Shankar Sharma
“Just finished reading 2 books: Spider Network: on the LIBOR fixing. Excellent read. But the Real Deal was @AndreAgassi 's Autobio. Amazing English! While I never quite forgave him for stealing Steffi from me, I grant him that he's written probably the best sport Auto Bio ever | The Spider Network by @davidenrich "Billions"esque saga of global financial market manipulation, at mindboggling scale and hiding in plain sight, by a small cabal of bankers in London.”
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