ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the assumptions of mainstream discourses on ethics. This discussion is fed with insights from Alain Badiou’s ethics of fidelity and accountability to the event. The chapter is organised as follows. First, it traces failure of ethics in finance to an essential negativity in the Western ethics motivated by a death drive. In the second section, an ethics of finance is viewed in positive terms through a discussion of fidelity to the truth-event that cannot be found in regulations, professional codes of ethics, or codes of conduct.
