Rogue trader : how I brought down Barings Bank and shook the financial world
Few news stories have grabbed the world's headlines quite like the collapse of Barings merchant bank in late February 1995. Trusted with the finances of royalty, aristocracy, and major corporations for more than two hundred years, Barings had apparently been brought down by the covert trading activities of just one man, leaving the bank with losses of over $1 billion. Rogue Trader takes us from Leeson's humble beginnings as the son of a plasterer to the very heart of the
Print Book, English, ©1996
1st ed
Little, Brown, Boston, ©1996