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...The economist Peter Leeson found that many ordeals exonerated the suspects, somehow miraculously unharmed by searing hot iron. How so?...
...I have been disappointed, however, with the quality of Ig Nobel prizes in economics and business, which have recognised rogue trader Nick Leeson, Lloyd’s of London, Enron, WorldCom, and the entire banking...
...Photographs: Catwalking.com; Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos; Richy Leeson...
...In Rogue Trader he describes the inner turmoil he felt when visited by Peter Norris, Barings’ chief executive, who asked if he was still enjoying his role: “I hadn’t enjoyed myself for about two years....
...In 1995, Nick Leeson brought down Barings Bank by hiding a $1.4bn loss in Singapore....
...The abstract from the latest paper by Peter T....
...People including Peter Baring, the bank’s chairman, speculated that he had an accomplice, or an account where profits were being hidden. It turned out to be untrue....
...peter.aspden@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/aspden...
...The economics of piracy is the subject of Peter T Leeson’s The Invisible Hook....
...It came with the name of Nick Leeson.” Peter Higginson, the head of safety at Hinkley Point B, also thinks there is a parallel....
...We might find out from Peter T....
...“It is not actually very difficult to make money in the securities business,” Peter Baring, chairman of the bank, famously remarked at the time....
...The trader – likely to trigger comparisons with the UK’s Nick Leeson, who caused the collapse of Barings Bank in 1995 – had “deep knowledge” of risk-control procedures from his time at the bank’s middle-office...
...Peter Leeson’s “An-arrgh-chy” taps contemporary accounts of pirate life from the golden age of Atlantic piracy, 1630 to 1730....
...When Barings collapsed in 1995 from the misdeeds of the barrow-boyish Nick Leeson in Singapore, it was led by Peter Baring, whose cousin is Lord Ashburton....
...The first criminal sentences from the near-collapse of China Aviation Oil, the Singapore-listed jet fuel importer, are scheduled to be handed down in Singapore tomorrow after former finance head Peter Lim...
...The exemplar was Peter Norris, Barings' chief executive, who was put under the greatest scrutiny of all....
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