Nick Leeson was born in Watford in February 1967 ... role at investment bank Morgan Stanley before taking up a similar position at Barings Bank, where one of his duties involved investigating ...

FLASH FRIDAY is sponsored by Instinet, a Nomura company.) On February 24, 1995, Barings Bank received a fax from fugitive trader Nick Leeson. In the fax, Leeson apologized for his trading losses that ...

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.

Three decades on from the collapse of Barings Bank, the prospect of sweeping deregulation in the financial system risks paving the way for a repeat. That at least is the opinion of Nick Leeson ...

Three decades on from the collapse of Barings Bank the prospect of sweeping deregulation in the financial system risks paving the way for a repeat. That at least is the opinion of Nick Leeson ...

Nick Lesson is a former derivatives broker whose fraudulent, unauthorized speculative trading caused the collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment bank, for which he was ...

Nick Leeson, arguably one of the most famous rogue ... Leeson single handedly lost Barings Bank £862 million through rogue trading in 1995. February marked the 20th anniversary since he caused ...

(Bloomberg) -- As a growing chorus of bankers and politicians around the world demand the roll-back of crisis-era regulations, Nick Leeson ... of 230-year-old Barings Bank and sent him to ...

As a growing chorus of bankers and politicians around the world demand the roll-back of crisis-era regulations, Nick ... Leeson, whose illicit trades sparked the collapse of 230-year-old Barings ...