Nicholas Leeson (English, born February 25, 1967) is a former derivatives trader whose unsupervised speculative trading caused the collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment bank. Leeson was born in Watford, north-west of London. He attended Parmiter's School. After leaving school in the early 1980s, Nick landed a job as a clerk with royal bank Coutts, followed by a string of jobs with other banks, … Wikipedia
Ten years ago this week, the rogue trader Nick Leeson fled Singapore after realising he could no longer hide his trading losses of more than 1bn. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4288271.stm
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