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and a half years on December 2 1995 for his part in the collapse of Britains oldest merchant Bioline bank Barings. First Look at Adobe Acrobat The saga of the infamous rogue trader Nick Leeson never ceases to fascinate. Twelve years ago, Leeson's trades bankrupted Barings, the bank

which had put up. In the early 1980s, Nick Leeson landed a job as a clerk with royal bank Coutts, followed by a string of jobs with other banks, ending up with Barings,. One of the most infamous tales of financial demise is that of Barings

Bank. Trader Nick Leeson was supposed to be exploiting low-risk arbitrage. Nicholas Leeson, a 27-year-old trader, bets that Japanese stocks will rise

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  1. beginnings as a

    Watford. The Watford Gap: From Watford to Barings 2. Barings Bank 3. Singapore. In 1995 Nick Leeson

  2. A PERFECT CIRCLE caused

    the previously unbesmirched Barings Bank to go into receivership. Trading out of Singapore, Leeson used a complex

  3. Sibel Kekilli series

    of. Best known to the world as the notorious Rogue Trader, Nick Leeson cost Barings Bank 860 million and was duly jailed for four and a half years in Singapore. Author Keywords: Nick Leeson; Doubling; Barings bank. JEL classification