KWEKU Adoboli was a rising star at investment bank UBS in London when his world collapsed spectacularly. It broke me,” he tells The Edge of his swift fall from grace in an exclusive interview in Kuala Lumpur recently. He was here as a speaker at the Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers’ international conference on financial crime and terrorism financing. He said he was a dedicated employee, exemplary even, who had been under tremendous pressure to deliver on unreasonable targets. That’s how I ended up going to boarding school in Yorkshire in the UK when I was 12,” he says.

Source: The Edge Markets December 09, 2019 06:00 UTC