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德意志銀行全球外匯交易室前主管Kevin Rodgers從事金融業30年來，以內幕人士的角度，敘述該行業的變遷與危機。

「以生動、第一人稱的方式，描述金融業的真貌…活潑又引人…，Rodgers牽起你的手漫步在金融史當中。」-《倫敦政經學院書評》

當Kevin Rodgers開始他的金融生涯時，吵鬧的生意人與比手畫腳的業務員把交易室的氣氛炒得熱烈不已。30年後，喧囂已然遠離，你所能聽到的最大噪音就只是輕敲鍵盤的聲音。當年的電話聲、手勢與最優質的男士們，已經轉變成微波通訊、複雜的衍生性商品與電腦怪胎的世界。作者以他非常個人的觀點，將這個沉默的革命，以苦樂參半的方式記錄下來。

除此之外，本書也是一本現代金融運作的大師級課程，告訴你何謂外匯交易、風險值以及蒙地卡羅定價如何運作…。作者對這30年來金融業的極大變化提出了令人憂心的問題：科技是否已經改變金融業，並且使得它更加地不穩定？

When Kevin Rodgers embarked on his career in finance, dealing rooms were seething with clamoring traders and gesticulating salesmen. Nearly three decades later, the feverish bustle has gone and the loudest noise you’re likely to hear is the gentle tapping of keyboards. Here is a very personal, often wryly amusing chronicle of this silent revolution that takes us from the days of phone calls, hand signals and alpha males to a world of microwave communications, complex derivatives and computer geeks. In addition, it’s a masterclass in how modern banking works, for those who don’t know their spot FX from their VaR or who struggle to recall precisely how Monte Carlo pricing operates. But it’s also an account of 30 years of seismic change that raises a deeply worrying question: Could it be that the technology that has transformed banking—and that continues to do so—is actually making it ever more unstable?