A short-seller is a gum shoe who roots out a particular story about a specific company and brings it to light. In this way, a short-seller is similar to an investigative journalist. Fahmi Quadir, the founder and CIO of Safkhet Capital, is known as the Assassin. Her notoriety proceeds her: Among her most well-known bets include short-selling Wirecard AG and Valeant. In today's conversation with Qaudir &mdash; recorded at our live show in London at Wilton's Music Hall &mdash; she dishes on what life is like for a short-seller, especially one as famous as her. In her mind, short-selling is only getting harder; it's a corner of finance that is facing an existential crisis, one whose value is questioned in what she calls a "golden age of fraud." She also tells us, that for the first time ever, she is going long with a focus on Korea that has nothing to do with the AI boom. Read more:<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/korea-exchange-is-said-to-launch-weekly-options-on-single-stocks?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=odd_lots&utm_content=article" data-renderer-mark="true" data-is-router-link="false" data-testid="link-with-safety">Korea Exchange Is Said to Launch Weekly Options on Single Stocks</a><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/swiss-pension-fund-eyes-1-1-billion-private-credit-investment?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=odd_lots&utm_content=article" data-renderer-mark="true" data-is-router-link="false" data-testid="link-with-safety">Swiss Pension Fund Eyes $1.1 Billion Private Credit Investment</a> Only <a href="http://bloomberg.com/" data-testid="inline-card-resolved-view">Bloomberg - Business News, Stock Markets, Finance, Breaking & World News</a> subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox each week, plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at&nbsp; <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots?in_source=oddlotspodcast" data-renderer-mark="true" data-is-router-link="false" data-testid="link-with-safety">bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots</a> <a href="http://bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots" data-renderer-mark="true" data-is-router-link="false" data-testid="link-with-safety">Subscribe to the Odd Lots Newsletter</a>Join the conversation: <a href="https://discord.gg/oddlots" data-renderer-mark="true" data-is-router-link="false" data-testid="link-with-safety">discord.gg/oddlots</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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