Kweku Adoboli was sentenced to seven years in prison and faced deportation after losing UBS £1.3 billion from trading activity that he says his managers knew about. Here's his story...

Ray Dalio’s early investment success can be attributed to a system he began to build as a young man trading agricultural products. He called it “the machine”...

One of Warren Buffett's greatest passions has been for an insurance company. It can be no coincidence then that US-based Government Employees Insurance Company - known as GEICO - is ...

The owner of the largest (and often described as the weirdest) hedge fund in the world is a man who built his empire from his apartment, came up with some ...

High technology entrepreneur turned investor, venture capitalist, blogger, best-selling author and ultimate multi-tasker. It can only be our latest Trading Legend... Ben Horowitz

He's the man who lost his bank $456 million and was handed a five-year trading ban. We speak to former Merrill Lynch trader Alexis Stenfors and find out what he's ...

The story of Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel, who went on trial in 2010 for fraud, breach of trust and forgery following the bank's loss of around €4.9 billion as ...

He’s the infamous rogue trader who caused the collapse of a bank, spent six years in prison and inspired a movie. Here’s the story of Nick Leeson…

One of the world’s best-known and most controversial traders survived Nazi persecution and was behind a fund that has made over $40 billion. He’s now one of the world’s most ...

The latest instalment in our series lauding the brightest minds, greatest achievers and biggest inspirations in the worlds of trading, finance and business sees us focus on the great Jim ...