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Confessions of a Rogue Trader

01/08/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Confessions of a Rogue Trader

Kweku Adoboli lost $2 billion. He tells the BBC how, and why it could happen again.

Ghanaian-born Kweku Adoboli lost $2 billion working for UBS bank. He tells us how, and why it could happen again. Also, Lucy Kellaway reveals her unlikely hero of plain-speaking,

We broadcast an extended  interview with Kweku Adoboli, the Ghanaian-born banker who managed to gamble and lose 2 billion dollars of his bank's money in London after the financial crisis. The losses were unparalleled in British banking history. He admits mistakes, but in his first broadcast interview since his release from prison, he tells the BBC's Economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, that the same thing could easily happen again. Also in the programme, Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times, always a champion of plain-speaking, finds an unexpected paragon of the art in the widely-reviled British retail boss, Sir Philip Green. She finds that he's really grasped the art of how to deliver plain insults, plainly. (Picture: Kweku Adoboli, arriving at court in London, Sept. 22, 2011. Credit: Getty Images)

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