Book description
Pressure, pace, error: ROGUE TRADER grippingly tells the inside story
of how the greatest gamble ever made rocked the City of London to its
foundations. Crackling with tension, in a narrative as crisp as any
thriller, Nick Leeson's autobiographical account reveals how he 'lost'
£800 million as General Manager of Baring Futures Singapore through
foolhardy speculations on behalf of his employer, Barings Brothers - the
world's first merchant bank. As Leeson's audacity escalated, so did his
losses while London continued to pour money down the drain. ROGUE TRADER
is a dazzlingly revealing story of a man shaped by events that proved
beyond his control. Hair-raising...as revealing a document about
contemporary Britain as all 2,000 pages of the Scott Report - OBSERVER
The story of Leeson and his bride has it all: filthy lucre, brazen abuse
of power, and boy-meets-girl romance - SUNDAY TIMES Simultaneously
entertaining and appalling - FINANCIAL TIMES 'When Nick Leeson was
arrested in 1995 for bringing Barings Bank to its proverbial knees, it
initially seemed as if he had single handedly crushed this most
well-established and well-respected financial institution, and indeed it
was he alone who found hi Susan Harrison, AMAZON. CO. UK REVIEW Nick
Leeson was born in Watford in 1967 and after a stint at Morgan Stanley
joined Baring Brothers in 1989. His immediate success led to his
transfer to Singapore. The rest is history.
