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On February 24, 1995, Barings Bank received a fax from fugitive trader Nick Leeson. In the fax, Leeson apologized for his trading losses that would ultimately bring down the 223-year-old bank and ...
Three decades on from the collapse of Barings Bank, the prospect of sweeping deregulation in the financial system risks ...
Leeson reflects on the push to roll back certain financial regulations three decades after his own rogue trades sparked the ...
So explains Nick Leeson’s journey from single-handedly crashing one of the world's oldest banks to investigating financial misconduct three decades later. After sinking the 233-year-old Barings Bank, ...
A plasterer's son bankrupting super-posh Barings, which in the end was sold to Dutch bank ING for a single pound. Of course, 30 years is a long time. But the Nick Leeson sitting in front of me in ...
Nick Leeson was Barings Bank's star trader on the Singapore International Monetary Exchage (SIMEX). He regularly reported huge profits. In truth though, he was gambling with the bank's money ...
It takes one to know one, as they say. So explains Nick Leeson’s journey from single-handedly crashing one of the world's oldest banks to investigating financial misconduct three decades later.