Rogue Trader

Barings Bank was the oldest merchant bank in London. It financed the Napoleonic Wars and held the Queen's money. In 1995, it was sold for GBP1. Why? Because a 28-year-old trader named Nick Leeson had secretly lost $1.3 billion betting on the Japanese stock market. Leeson wasn't an evil genius; he was a frantic young man trying to hide a small mistake in a secret account numbered "e;88888"e;. As ...