Hints and tips:
...In Rogue Trader (1999), based on the Nick Leeson story, a famous London bank, unable to avoid its own mutation into a black hole, fields bulletins from a Briton bankrupting it in Singapore....
...In his annual Mansion House speech on the UK economy on Wednesday night, the chancellor George Osborne was scheduled to signal his strong approval for much of the report, particularly the recommendation...
...George Osborne, UK chancellor, said from the Finance Ministers meeting in Poland that it was a “shocking case”....
...Stanley Druckenmiller, for many years the right- hand man of George Soros, lost $650m in two days, half as much as Soros had made from his famous bet against sterling two years before....
...Marquand, who died in 1960, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for The Late George Apley....
...Leeson, a professor at George Mason University in the US, turns this viewpoint on its head....
...Leeson, an economist at George Mason University, who this week published a short book on the organisation of pirate ships in the early 18th century.* While the book bills itself as explaining the “hidden...
...His best employer, he says, was Barings, the blue-blooded bank destroyed by rogue trader Nick Leeson: “It was very patriarchal. The [Baring] family had nothing to prove....
...They are perfect conditions to expose a rogue trader in the mould of Nick Leeson of Barings....
...It’s always been a matter of debate what value ING actually got out of its rescue in 1995 of the Baring Brothers brought down by Nick Leeson....
...Investors recalled Nick Leeson and the ill-fated Barings bank....
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