Education
Archer was educated at Eton College, where he became captain of the Athletics team, and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he studied Chemistry and in 1993 ran in the Oxford and Cambridge Varsity match.
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Career
The Honorary The stunt, intended to raise their profile and further increase their then-significant earnings, backfired. In 2000, James Archer and his boss Adrian Ezra were found to have attempted to manipulate the closing price of a Swedish stock, Stora, through aggressive short-selling shortly after the Nobu stunt, and as a result the Financial Services Authority expelled them from the Securities and Futures Authority register. Archer was required to pay £50,000 towards the legal costs of the Securities and Futures Authority.
Eleven years later, in 2010, the Nasdaq OMX in Stockholm formally reviewed the ban on Archer and stated that they would no longer object to his being given access to their markets, should the circumstances arise.
Membership
At Cr Suisse First Boston, in London, Archer rose to fame as a member of a cadre of five proprietary traders known as the "Flaming Ferraris" after the rum cocktail they adopted as their trademark drink. In December 1998, one of the other members of this group orchestrated a public relations stunt which ensured that they were pictured arriving at Nobu, an expensive Japanese restaurant in Park Lane, in what The Independent characterised as "Reservoir Dogs-style".
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