The Untimely Passing of Bartholomew Gould

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Basel I had also floundered until a dinner between Paul Volcker, then Federal Reserve chairman, and Robin Leigh-Pemberton, then governor of the Bank of England, held at the governor’s private flat in September 1986, in which the UK agreed to push for an accord. The Bank recognised that, with the Big Bang of financial deregulation approaching, the “gentlemanly” way in which it had previously regulated the City was no longer fit for purpose.

—Financial Times, 23 October 2011

Time travel story about a legal eagle called Bartholomew Gould who disappeared from the future without explanation and was sent back to kill the members of basel committee who sanctioned netting regulation.

The story opens in Basel in 1995, with the murder of a Basil A’Court, a banking supervisor for the Central Bank of Belgiumstein. He has been poisoned with a complicated cocktail of refined, purified, tranched derivatives that would not become popular for ten years after his death.

Boone whistled. “Who knew the Belgians even possessed this technology in the nineties? The techniques for refining and distributing this kind of risk weren’t widespread until the 2000s. The poor guy can’t have known what hit him.”

“Just look at the smile on his face, though,” said Barber.

“But check out this, boss,” said A.J. “It looks like someone tried to revive him with aleatory powder.”

Aleatory? Whoah. I put level money on it that no-one had developed aleatory treatments in 1995. Definites. Weird.