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 ...

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.

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.

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.

This February marks 30 years since my rogue trading rocked the financial system and cratered Barings, Britain’s oldest and most venerable bank. I racked up $1 billion in losses right under the ...