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The following contains a list of trading losses of the equivalent of USD100 million or higher. Trading losses are the amount of principal losses in an account.[1] Because of the secretive nature of many hedge funds and fund managers, some notable losses may never be reported to the public. The list is ordered by the real amount lost, starting with the greatest.

This list includes both fraudulent and non-fraudulent losses, but excludes losses associated with Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, which is estimated in the $50 billion range, because Madoff did not lose the majority of this money in trading.

# Nominal Amount Lost USD FX Rate at time of loss[2] USD Equivalent at time of loss USD Inflation to 2007[3] 2007 USD Amount Lost Country Company Source of Loss Year Person(s) associated with incident
1 USD 9 bn 1 USD 9 bn -3.7% USD 8.67 bn  United States Morgan Stanley[4] Credit Default Swaps 2008 Howie Hubler
2 $6.12 (EUR 4.9) bn 0.679 USD 7.22 bn -3.7% USD 6.95 bn  France Société Générale[5] European Index Futures 2008 Jérôme Kerviel
3 USD 6.5 bn 1 USD 6.50 bn 2.8% USD 6.69 bn  United States Amaranth Advisors[6] Gas Futures 2006 Brian Hunter
4 USD 4.6 bn 1 USD 4.6 bn 27.2% USD 5.85 bn  United States Long Term Capital Management[7] Interest Rate and Equity Derivatives 1998 John Meriwether
5 USD 5.80 bn 1 USD 5.80 bn -7.0% USD 5.80 bn  United Kingdom JPMorgan Chase[8] Credit default swaps 2012 Bruno Iksil
6 JPY 285 bn 108.78 USD 2.62 bn 32.1% USD 3.46 bn  Japan Sumitomo Corporation[9] Copper Futures 1996 Yasuo Hamanaka
7 BRL 4.62 bn 1.833 USD 2.52 bn -3.7% USD 2.43 bn  Brazil Aracruz[10][11] FX Options 2008 Isac Zagury, Rafael Sotero
8 USD 1.7 bn[12] 1 USD 1.7 bn 39.9% USD 2.38 bn  United States Orange County[13] Leveraged bond investments 1994 Robert Citron
9 DEM 2.63 bn 1.655 USD 1.59 bn 43.5% USD 2.28 bn  Germany Metallgesellschaft[14] Oil Futures 1993 Heinz Schimmelbusch[15]
10 JPY 166 bn 111.08 USD 1.49 bn 43.5% USD 2.14 bn  Japan Showa Shell Sekiyu [16][17] FX Forwards 1993
11 JPY 1536 bn 102.18 USD 1.50 bn 39.9% USD 2.09 bn  Japan Kashima Oil[17] FX Forwards 1994
12 USD 2 bn 1 USD 2 bn -8.5% USD 1.83 bn  United Kingdom UBS[18] Equities ETF and Delta 1 2011 Kweku Adoboli
13 HKD 14.7 bn 7.786 USD 1.89 bn -3.7% USD 1.82 bn  China CITIC Pacific[19] Foreign Exchange Trading 2008 Frances Yung
14 GBP 827 mn 0.633 USD 1.31 bn 36.1% USD 1.78 bn  Singapore Barings Bank[20] Nikkei Futures 1995 Nick Leeson
15 RUB 78.5 bn 38.98 USD 2.01 bn -12.6% USD 1.76 bn  Russia Transneft[21][22][23][24] Derivatives 2014 Maksim Grishanin, VP Finance
16 USD 1.8 bn 1 USD 1.8 bn -3.7% USD 1.74 bn  United States Deutsche Bank[25] Derivatives 2008 Boaz Weinstein
17 $1.75 (EUR 1.4) bn 0.923 USD 1.29 bn [26] 20.4% USD 1.56 bn  Austria BAWAG [27] Foreign Exchange Trading 2000 [26] Wolfgang Flöttl, Helmut Elsner[27]
18 USD 1.1 bn 1 USD 1.10 bn 36.1% USD 1.50 bn  Japan Daiwa Bank[28] Bonds 1995 Toshihide Iguchi
19 USD 0.80 bn 1 USD 0.80 bn 82.5% USD 1.46 bn  United Kingdom Soros Fund[29] SP 500 Futures 1987 George Soros
20 $0.94 (EUR 0.75) bn 0.679 USD 1.10 bn -3.7% USD 1.06 bn  France Groupe Caisse d'Epargne[30][31] Derivatives 2008 Boris Picano-Nacci
21 BRL 2 bn 1.833 USD 1.09 bn -3.7% USD 1.05 bn  Brazil Sadia[10][11][32] FX and Credit Options 2008 Adriano Ferreira, Álvaro Ballejo
22 GBP 0.4 bn 0.611 USD 0.66 bn 29.2% USD 0.85 bn  United Kingdom Morgan Grenfell[33] Shares 1997 Peter Young
23 USD 0.6 bn 1 USD 0.60 bn 39.9% USD 0.84 bn  United States Askin Capital Management[34] Mortgage-Backed Securities 1994 David Askin
24 $0.75 (EUR 0.60) bn 1.371 USD 0.82 bn 0.0 USD 0.82 bn  Germany WestLB[35] Common and Preferred Shares 2007 Friedhelm Breuers[36]
25 USD 0.69 bn 1 USD 0.69 bn 15.3% USD 0.80 bn  United States AIB/Allfirst[37] Foreign Exchange Options 2002 John Rusnak
26 DEM 0.47 bn 2.587 USD 0.18 bn 320.6% USD 0.76 bn  Germany Herstatt Bank[38][39] Foreign Exchange Trading 1974 Dany Dattel
27 CAD 0.68 bn 1.066 USD 0.64 bn 0% USD 0.64 bn  Canada Bank of Montreal[40][41] Natural gas derivatives 2007 David Lee, Kevin Cassidy [42][43]
28 USD 0.55 bn 1 USD 0.55 bn 9.8% USD 0.60 bn  China China Aviation Oil (Singapore)[44] Oil Futures and Options 2004 Chen Jiulin
29 CHF 0.63 bn 1.451 USD 0.43 bn 27.2% USD 0.55 bn  Switzerland Union Bank of Switzerland[45] Equity Derivatives 1998 Ramy Goldstein
30 USD 0.28 bn 1 USD 0.28 bn 82.5% USD 0.51 bn  United States Merrill Lynch[46] Mortgages (IOs and POs) Trading 1987 Howard A. Rubin
31 USD 0.28 bn 1 USD 0.28 bn 82.5% USD 0.51 bn  United States State of West Virginia[47] Fixed Income and Interest Rate Derivatives 1987 A. James Manchin
32 USD 0.35 bn 1 USD 0.35 bn 39.9% USD 0.49 bn  United States Kidder Peabody[48] Government Bonds 1994 Joseph Jett
33 USD 0.4 bn 1 USD 0.40 bn 20.4% USD 0.48 bn  United States Manhattan Investment Fund[49] Short IT stocks during the internet bubble 2000 Michael Berger
34 $0.37 (EUR 0.30) bn 1.244 USD 0.37 bn 9.8% USD 0.41 bn  Austria Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank International[50] Foreign Exchange Trading 2004
35 USD 0.35 bn 1 USD 0.35 bn 0.0% USD 0.35 bn  United States Calyon[51] Credit Derivatives 2007 Richard "Chip" Bierbaum
36 AUD 0.36 bn 1.171 USD 0.31 bn 9.8% USD 0.34 bn  Australia National Australia Bank[52] Foreign Exchange Trading 2004 Luke Duffy, Gianni Gray, Vince Ficarra & David Bullen[53]
37 $0.37 (EUR 0.30) bn 0.895 USD 0.27 bn 17.1% USD 0.31 bn  Belgium Dexia Bank[54] Corporate Bonds 2001
38 USD 0.207 bn 1 USD 0.207 bn 43.5% USD 0.30 bn  Chile Codelco[55] Copper, silver, gold futures 1993 Juan Pablo Davila
39 USD 0.16 bn 1 USD 0.16 bn 39.9% USD 0.22 bn  United States Procter & Gamble[56] Interest Rate Derivatives 1994 Raymond Mains
40 USD 0.2 bn 1 USD 0.20 bn 6.2% USD 0.21 bn  China State Reserves Bureau Copper Scandal[57] Copper Futures 2005 Liu Qibing[58]
41 GBP 0.09 bn 0.611 USD 0.15 bn 29.2% USD 0.19 bn  United Kingdom NatWest[59] Interest Rate Options 1997 Kyriacos Papouis
42 USD 0.11 bn 1 USD 0.11 bn 39.9% USD 0.15 bn  United States Cuyahoga County, Ohio[60] Leveraged Fixed Income 1994
43 SEK 1.23 bn 7.804 USD 0.15 bn -4.8% USD 0.143 bn  Sweden HQ Bank[61] Equity Derivatives 2010 Fredrik Crafoord, Mikael König, Patrik Enblad
44 USD 0.14 bn 1 USD 0.14 bn -3.7% USD 0.13 bn  United States MF Global[62] Wheat Futures 2008 Evan Dooley
45 USD 0.12 bn 1 USD 0.12 bn -3.7% USD 0.12 bn  United States Morgan Stanley[63] Credit-index options 2008 Matt Piper
46 USD 0.1 bn 1 USD 0.10 bn 15.3% USD 0.12 bn  Croatia Riječka banka (Rijeka Bank)[64] Foreign Exchange Trading 2002 Eduard Nodilo

See also

References

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  64. ^ Croat trader puts bank in $109.87 (£70)m crisis, Daily Telegraph, 2003-03-24. Retrieved 2008-01-24
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