Term Paper

The securities industry boasts a stressful working environment that puts an emphasis on profit alone sometimes causing it’s workers to resort to unethical methods of trade. The result is a mistrust between the common investor and the brokerage houses they use to process their trades. This cheating in order to gain an advantage over the market is best focused on with the insider trading scandals of the past and their repercussions on how business ethics should be practiced in the workplace today.
The 1980’s was a revolutionary period for stock trading. New computer systems transformed the industry making the exchange faster to transact and easier to monitor. This gave way to the exposure of insider trading and traders had to decide for themselves whether they would succumb to the fast money or stick with standard methods. This division was based upon the individuals business ethics which, in time, would become more defined with the downfall of notorious criminals like ...