Nick Leeson

ActorWriter Feb 25 (age 59) Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK 1999–2007 (8 year career)

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Biography

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