Nick Leeson: how the original rogue trader at Barings Bank is thriving in the credit crunch Nick Leeson, the man who broke Barings Bank and whose name became a byword for financial crisis, is now lec

Nicholas "Nick" Leeson (born February 25, 1967) is a former derivatives trader whose unsupervised and unauthorized speculative trading on Singapore's Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX)

Welcome to the official website of Nick Leeson – the rogue trader whose unchecked risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century. The collapse of Barings Bank (personal bank t

The collapse of Britain's Barings Bank in February 1995 is perhaps the quintessential tale of financial risk management gone wrong. The failure was completely unexpected. Over a course of days, the ba