This is one of the reasons why it's so hard for me to reconcile everything that has happened. It (requesting rates) was just so normal. It was just people doing their jobs.

Tom Hayes

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... the Serious Fraud Office has tried to take everything from me - from my liberty to my wedding ring, i vehemently maintain my innocence.

A large part came out of my (private) trading. by Tom Hayes

A large part came out of my (private) trading.

Basically, probably about half of the funds came out of spread-be... by Tom Hayes

Basically, probably about half of the funds came out of spread-betting. It's very hard to delineate.

My application is clearly in relation to a point of law and is of public importance because it concerns the test of dishonesty that applies to all criminal cases in this country.

Just try and catch him down in the toilet or something. by Tom Hayes

Just try and catch him down in the toilet or something.

For me this case is all about numbers and we don't ever really look at the numbers properly, in my opinion.

It doesn't really matter what I recollect, i'm not qualified to a... by Tom Hayes

It doesn't really matter what I recollect, i'm not qualified to answer the question.

A large part of these interviews were effectively educated guesse... by Tom Hayes

A large part of these interviews were effectively educated guesses.

You know what? It's disgusting that I was forced into this situat... by Tom Hayes

You know what? It's disgusting that I was forced into this situation by the U.S. government.

I had to say I was doing something wrong. I had to get charged, i was pretty much having a breakdown, almost. I was surviving on a 24-hour timeline, just trying to get through to the following day. I needed to be charged.

At the time I didn't think about any of it, whether it was right or wrong, people go to work every day on the train or on a bike or however they get there and they do a job. They don't sit and think: 'is doing my job honest or dishonest?' They do their job.

I wanted to say 'I haven't done anything wrong. I was just doing... by Tom Hayes

I wanted to say 'I haven't done anything wrong. I was just doing my job and I'm not dishonest'.

Even at the point I was fired I didn't think much of it. I just thought 'I'll just get another job'. I had enough people who wanted to employ me.

The run-throughs were random. by Tom Hayes

The run-throughs were random.

The submissions at RBS were done by a whole range of people. by Tom Hayes

The submissions at RBS were done by a whole range of people.

That's my obsessionality for you. Why say something once when I c... by Tom Hayes

That's my obsessionality for you. Why say something once when I can say it five times?

The first thing I was told when I started trading, by the guy who was training me, was 'all brokers are liars'.

I found it a very difficult place to leave, not, like, literally -- I mean emotionally. I enjoyed working there and I liked my managers, I felt real loyalty to the bank. I didn't really want to go, truth be told.

I wanted to do my job as perfectly as I could. by Tom Hayes

I wanted to do my job as perfectly as I could.

I could've done a million things to reduce the trail, the practice was tried and tested, it was so endemic within the bank (UBS), I just thought ... this can't be a big issue because everybody knows about it ... (it was) such an open secret.