ESCP Europe

"Traders, guns & money is a wickedly comic exposé of the culture, games and deceptions played out every day in trading rooms around the world. An played out with other people's money. A sensational insider’s view of the business of trading and marketing derivatives, this revised edition explains the frighteningly central role that derivatives and financial products played in the global financial crisis." - from back cover.

1. Financial WMDs - derivatives demagoguery --- 2. Beautiful lies - the 'sell' side --- 3. True lies - the 'buy' side --- 4. Show me the money - greed lost and regained --- 5. The perfect storm - risk mismanagement by the numbers --- 6. Super models - derivative algorithms --- 7. Games without frontiers - the inverse world of structured products --- 8. Share and share alike - derivative inequity --- 9. Credit where credit is due - fun with CDS and CDO.