# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nick-leeson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:19:04.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nick-leeson"
name: "Nick Leeson"
slug: "nick-leeson"
description: "Nicholas William Leeson is an English former derivatives trader whose fraudulent, unauthorised and speculative trades resulted in the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest existing merchant bank. He was convicted of financial crime in a Singapore court and served more than four years in Changi Prison."
tagline: "Former derivatives broker"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-02-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.21488
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "TheNickLeeson"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498776/"
    handle:    "nm0498776"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nickleeson.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Nicholas Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nick Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson"
    title: "Nick Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson"
    title: "Nick Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson"
    title: "Nick Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nick Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson"
    title: "Nick Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson"
    title: "Nick Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson"
    title: "Nick Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson"
    title: "Nick Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson"
    title: "Nick Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Лисон, Ник"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nick Leeson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Nick Leeson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump