The Spider Network

Ziemlich unglaubliche Freunde - Donald Trump und die Deutsche Bank Der Suizid des Risikokapitalisten Bill Broeksmit gibt bis heute Rätsel auf. Warum erhängte sich der Topmanager der Deutschen Bank Anfang 2014? War er ein Mann, der zu viel wusste?Ausgehend von diesem Fall begibt sich der preisgekrönte Finanzjournalist David Enrich auf die Suche nach Antworten und zeichnet dabei die Spur der Verwüstung nach, die die Bank während ihres 150-jährigen Bestehens hinterlassen hat. Er stößt dabei auf Machenschaften wie Marktmanipulationen, Insidergeschäfte, Beziehungen zu Jeffrey Epstein und russischen Oligarchen bis hin zu zweifelhaften Krediten für Donald Trump und dessen Rolle bei den US-Geschäften der Bank. Enrich beleuchtet in seinem spannenden Buch nichts weniger als die dunklen Seiten einer deutschen Finanzinstitution.

David Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers, produces his most consequential and far-reaching investigation yet: an in-depth exposé of the broad campaignorchestrated by elite Americansto overturn sixty years of Supreme Court precedent, weaponize our speech laws, and silence dissent.

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARThe 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.