A London banker charged in an insider-trading ring allegedly calculated how many $100 bills it would take to pay her cut of the proceeds. Universities used to turn out poets. These days, though, many of the best and brightest graduates take their fancy educations and parlay them into high-paying junior investment-banking roles where they toil over workbooks. Darina Windsor, one of the young London bankers charged in an insider-trading ring, showed off her creative side as well as what she learned on the job in the exhibits laid out in the charges. It lays out, with percentages and exchange rates, not only her cut of the $2 million in alleged proceeds but how many £50 notes or $100 bills it would take to pay her.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 23, 2019 18:11 UTC