Nosferatu

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Nosferatu was a Romanian broker/dealer, headquartered high in the Carpathian mountains. It was an intermediate broker for Lehman brothers and MF Global. It had a long and magnificent history, first clearing Transylvanian futures for the Medicis and Rothschilds, only to meet a sticky end when tulip mania finally broke in 1637. But, miraculously, it lived on, in boxes of sacred earth, only to wreak a similar hell on undercapitalised American brokers in 2008.

If you find a chap with Arthur Andersen, Enron, Lehman and MF Global on his CV, don't call him Lucky. Call him Phantom der Nacht.

He controls the sleeping army of zombie ISDAs and is the archetypal counterpoint to the Good Man.

See also

• Good Man
• Lucky
• Chicken Licken
• Litigation
• Security interest