Litquidity: the financial ‘meme-lord’ taking Wall Street by storm

Instagram’s most popular financial meme account is the creation of an anonymous former banker

Anonymous Financial Times reader
Little is known about the one-time Wall Street insider behind Litquidity
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A financial meme account run by an anonymous former Wall Street banker has become essential viewing for hundreds of thousands of people in the industry.

The viral posts of the “finmeme-lord” known as Litquidity are “comedic cocaine to banking executives and trading floor interns”, said the Financial Times (FT). Litquidity has amassed more than 790,000 followers on Instagram and more than 330,000 on Twitter with content that takes aim at “everything from monetary policy to bad loafers” in the “eminently lampoonable industry”, the paper added.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.