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Nick Leeson

Former derivatives broker · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1967 · age 59

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.

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He was convicted of financial crime in a Singapore court and served more than four years in Changi Prison.

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United Kingdom
Category
Writers
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Writer / Author
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Living
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Born 1967 · age 59

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