Property News · January 17, 2016

Showtime's Billions enters tricky world of Wall Street drama and delivers


Insider jokes, hedge fund titans, financial jargon – creators have all the ingredients of a compelling financial suspense storylineIn Showtime’s new drama series, Billions, a grim-faced procession of FBI agents and other law enforcement personnel march down the glass-walled hallways of a top hedge fund, brandishing subpoenas and ordering the firm’s traders to step away from their computers.In the last decade or so, in the real world, that kind of scene has become all too familiar. The Securities and Exchange Commission, federal prosecutors and the real-life equivalents of the Billions character played by Paul Giamatti (a district attorney) have embarked on one prosecution and one arrest after another. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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