Kweku Adoboli: Understanding the Mindset which Led to the Biggest ever Trading Loss
19 May 2020
Location: 12.00pm - 1.00pm Virtual Event (Zoom) Members: £40+VAT - Book by 19 May

Highlights
Unique opportunity to hear Kweku's story, his motivation and his mindset.
Ask questions directly and listen to an industry panel discuss the practical aspects dealing with clients through the legal process.
Kweku Adoboli began his working life as an operations analyst at UBS Investment Bank. Within three years he was recruited to the ETF and Index desk on the equities trading floor. In 2007, with just 10 months experience as an ETF trader, he was given joint responsibility for the desk’s US$50bn trading book. Through the global financial crisis and after, the UBS ETF Desk was a central driver of the Equities Business’ post-crisis recovery strategy.
In 2011, under pressure to accelerate trading profits through client and proprietary trading, the desk incurred a $2.3bln trading loss to the bank. In 2011 Kweku Adoboli took sole responsibility for the trading loss and systems employed by the desk. Subsequently convicted of fraud, but found not guilty of false accounting, he served half of a seven-year prison sentence. Since release from prison in June 2015, Adoboli has worked with students, academics, regulators, and multi-disciplinary corporate institutions across the UK to help deliver lessons on risk management, ethics, complexity and failure. He’s also worked with the UK Government - including the Counter Terrorism Unit of the UK Special Forces alongside Tony Blair and General Sir Peter Wall, the Bank of England, and ironically the UK Home Office.

Former Trader, Culture and Systems Advisor
UBS Trader

UBS Trader
Partner
HFW
HFW
Partner
PCB Litigation (UK)
PCB Litigation (UK)

Counsel
Campbells (Cayman)

Campbells (Cayman)

Director
Berkeley Research Group (BRG)

Berkeley Research Group (BRG)

Managing Director Enforcement & EMEA,
Omni Bridgeway

Omni Bridgeway
Partner
Lalive
Lalive
Agenda
Speakers:
Kweku Adoboli - Former Trader, Culture and Systems Advisor - UBS Trader
Speakers:
Natalie Todd - Partner - PCB Litigation (UK)
Paul Kennedy - Counsel - Campbells (Cayman)
Rick Brown - Partner - HFW
Adam Garside - Director - Berkeley Research Group (BRG)
Kweku Adoboli - Former Trader, Culture and Systems Advisor - UBS Trader
Wieger Wielinga - Managing Director Enforcement & EMEA, - Omni Bridgeway
Marc Henzelin - Partner - Lalive

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