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It’s very hard to get too pessimistic about downward revisions when you have three tailwinds at your back, namely the stimulus, the vaccinations and (declining coronavirus) cases, and earnings.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
... the Serious Fraud Office has tried to take everything from me - from my liberty to my wedding ring, i vehemently maintain my innocence.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Basically, probably about half of the funds came out of spread-betting. It's very hard to delineate.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
My application is clearly in relation to a point of law and is of public importance because it concerns the test of dishonesty that applies to all criminal cases in this country.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For me this case is all about numbers and we don't ever really look at the numbers properly, in my opinion.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A large part of these interviews were effectively educated guesses.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It doesn't really matter what I recollect, i'm not qualified to answer the question.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You know what? It's disgusting that I was forced into this situation by the U.S. government.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Even at the point I was fired I didn't think much of it. I just thought 'I'll just get another job'. I had enough people who wanted to employ me.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I wanted to say 'I haven't done anything wrong. I was just doing my job and I'm not dishonest'.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
At the time I didn't think about any of it, whether it was right or wrong, people go to work every day on the train or on a bike or however they get there and they do a job. They don't sit and think: 'is doing my job honest or dishonest?' They do their job.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I had to say I was doing something wrong. I had to get charged, i was pretty much having a breakdown, almost. I was surviving on a 24-hour timeline, just trying to get through to the following day. I needed to be charged.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That's my obsessionality for you. Why say something once when I can say it five times?
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The submissions at RBS were done by a whole range of people.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The first thing I was told when I started trading, by the guy who was training me, was 'all brokers are liars'.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This is one of the reasons why it's so hard for me to reconcile everything that has happened. It (requesting rates) was just so normal. It was just people doing their jobs.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I found it a very difficult place to leave, not, like, literally -- I mean emotionally. I enjoyed working there and I liked my managers, I felt real loyalty to the bank. I didn't really want to go, truth be told.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
(I was) either the stupidest fraudster ever because I wrote everything down or there was an element of me that genuinely didn't think about it.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I could've done a million things to reduce the trail, the practice was tried and tested, it was so endemic within the bank (UBS), I just thought ... this can't be a big issue because everybody knows about it ... (it was) such an open secret.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Took the guys out for a very expensive lunch when I was in London. It cost more than I care to think about.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Try and catch him when he's on his own, not with his boss and stuff ... just try and catch him going to the toilet or something, we've got like $4 million of point fixing in the next 2 weeks.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
... as a desk, we've got a very big 3 month Libor fixing ... So we could do with moving the 3 month Libor down a few basis points on their contributions, mention we have a big 3 month Libor set ... make sure not to put it in writing ... just have a quiet word.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
How much influence I'm going to have in inverted commas I don't know, took the guys out for a very expensive lunch when I was in London. It cost more than I care to think about.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
People are variables that don't behave in predictable ways...I'd rather manage risk than people.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I've always described Libors as the cherry on top of the cake. It was like squeezing out that extra little bit of value.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Make some efforts on Libor, any favours they can call in whatever ... make sure you take the guys out for like a strip club or whatever the night before.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Well that's sort of ironic that you're firing me given that you were involved in it up to your eyeballs as well.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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