installment payments. This feature gave the securities a great deal of price volatility, as a small change in the value of the fully-paid bonds would represent a much greater change in the value of the partly-paid Omniums. References Yapp, Nick. Great Hoaxes of the World (and the hoaxers behind them). Robson Books. 1995. Civilising Mammon: Fraud and Profit in Nineteenth-Century London External links The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane et al. taken in shorthand by William Brodie Gurney, from Project Gutenberg 1814 in the United Kingdom 19th-century hoaxes Hoaxes in the United Kingdom 1814 in economics London Stock Exchange February 1814 events 1814 in London 1810s crimes in London 1814 crimes in the United Kingdom