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Barings Bank: Its Collapse, Acquisition, and Lessons Learned
Barings Banks was a British merchant bank that collapsed in 1995 after a trader in its Singapore office, 28-year-old Nick Leeson, lost about $1.3 billion making unauthorized trades. Founded in ...
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This 'Rogue' Trader's Losses Wiped Out One of the Oldest Investment Banks-Now He's Investigating People Just Like Him
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.
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How the Man Who Single-Handedly Brought Down One of the World's Oldest Investment Banks Became a Financial Misconduct Investigator
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.
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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'
He was bold, bright, alarmingly young and seemed to be making more money for Barings Bank than all the other traders on SIMEX put together. 'I was the ascending star! There were no limitations.