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The City Trader Who Knew Too Much : Episode 513

Behind the polished world of high finance was a trader accused of helping manipulate one of the world’s most important interest rates. This episode explores the rise and fall of Tom Hayes, the former City trader at the centre of the LIBOR scandal, examining the culture of banking, the pursuit of profit, and the global investigation that followed. Was Hayes a rogue operator, or a scapegoat for a broken financial system?


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