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Kweku Adoboli- Rogue Trader 19 September 2011
By Jonathan Sibun and Jonathan Russell, The Telegraph.City rogue trader Kweku Adoboli arrested over $2bn UBS loss. Kweku Adoboli, a 31-year old trader at UBS, has been arrested by City of London police in connection with rogue trading that has cost the Swiss banking giant an estimated $2bn (£1.3bn). Mr Adoboli worked in the bank's exchange traded funds (ETFs) business and was arrested early on Thursday morning. News of the losses pushed UBS’s shares down 10.8pc to Sfr9.75, knocking Sfr4.52bn (£3.3bn) off the bank’s market value.Records from the City regulator suggest Mr Adoboli joined UBS as a trainee in March 2006. The bank is one of the City's major institutions, with 6,000 staff in the UK and 65,000 worldwide. Mr Adoboli was hired by UBS after studying at the University of Nottingham, where he worked as communications officer from 2000 to 2001. He worked in the bank’s Delta One trading business, responsible for making markets in exchange-traded funds (ETFs), instruments which have already drawn criticism from regulators.The landlord at Mr Adoboli's former £1,000-a-week apartment in Shoreditch, east London, described him today as a "nice guy". Philip Octave, 42, said he moved out of the flat - just a few hundred yards walk from UBS's London headquarters - "about four months ago" after living there for "about two-and-a-half years". "He had a girlfriend who I met once. He wasn't the tidiest person, but he was a good tenant. His girlfriend was a nurse I think, she was a long-term girlfriend. I don't know where he has moved on to."
The bank said in a statement: "UBS has discovered a loss due to unauthorised trading by a trader in its Investment bank. "The matter is still being investigated, but UBS's current estimate of the loss on the trades is in the range of $2bn."Rival traders were scurrying to uncover details of the trades, with opinion divided on what had taken place. “The market is awash with rumours,” said one senior equities banker. “Some are saying it’s a naked short on silver, others to the S&P 500, others to the banks. It’s clearly leveraged to the hilt and has a currency element – probably whacked by the Swiss intervention on the franc.” The bank said that it may also be forced to report a loss for the third quarter due to the unauthorised trade. UBS assured clients that their positions were not affected.From his roots in the Ghanaian industrial port of Tema to a £1,000-a-week loft apartment in the City of London, Kweku Adoboli was the embodiment of global socialmobility as his career went from strength to strength. As a trader at the Swiss investment bank UBS, the 31 year-old was earning a six-figure salary and spent his spare time travelling the world, building up his collection of Argentine boutique wines. As the son of a Ghanaian United Nations worker, Mr Adoboli was born into a life of privilege, travelling extensively as a child and spending time in Israel, Syria and Iraq, where he is understood to have attended international schools. His journey towards the City began when he was sent to boarding school in England, making such an impression at the £19,635-per-year Ackworth School in Pontefract, West Yorks, that he was made deputy head boy. From there he went on to study for a BSc in Computing and Business Management at Nottingham University, where in 2000 he was elected as Communications Officer for the Students’ Union, and also took charge of coordinating Freshers’ Week. “He was an absolute whizz with computers,” said one contemporary.
I don't have Kweku Adoboli's actual birth time but what can we tell by looking at his mid-day chart? Interestingly, we can see that all the planets are contained in one section of the chart between Venus (money) and Neptune (deception). The ruler of Venus in Leo is the Sun and the ruler of Neptune in Sagittarius is Jupiter and those two planets are closely conjunct in Virgo and both square Neptune, indicating deception and delusion on a grand scale. Chiron in Taurus opposite Mars in Scorpio indicates his work in the finance section of the bank but it squares Venus in Leo, which is known for liking the good life.He has a broad Sun/Saturn conjunction in Virgo and this may have contributed to him owning up to his rogue trading and financial losses, by taking responsibility for his actions before he got found out. Mercury is on the Saturn/Pluto midpoint and suggests he is capable of self-discipline while performing the most difficult tasks. What is also interesting is the position of the Centaur Pholus at 00-15' degrees of Aries directly opposite Saturn (the taskmaster and teacher) and transiting Uranus has been hovering over that point, bringing to light something that has been waiting to be disclosed. When he was arrested transiting Saturn at 16 degrees Libra was on his natal Jupiter/Mars midpoint - limiting his freedom. L.S.
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