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FLASH FRIDAY: Nick Leeson and Barings Bank, 30 Years On
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 ...
Wall Street’s ‘Original Rogue Trader’ Nick Leeson Is Starting to Get Worried
Leeson reflects on the push to roll back certain financial regulations three decades after his own rogue trades sparked the ...
BBC9y
'I was there': Nick Leeson brings down Barings bank, 1995
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 ...
Daily Mail14d
He lost £800million and brought down Barings Bank. Now, 30 years on, rogue trader NICK LEESON says: 'I'm not lying awake worrying about the victims'
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 ...