Rogue Trader

Author(s): Leeson, Nick,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 22/10/2015,
Pagination: 384 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Sphere,
Published By: Little, Brown Book Group,
Book Classification: Autobiography: business & industry
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780751563399

Description:

When Leeson was arrested in 1995 for bringing Barings Bank to its knees, it initially seemed as if he had single-handedly crushed the company.

Indeed, it was he alone who found himself in the dark confines of a Singapore jail, from where he wrote Rogue Trader.

Now updated for the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of Barings, this is his story of a broken system; of a cast of characters blind to anything but profits - whatever the cost.

Leeson's tale of boom and bust is an important reminder of the immense power the banking system held and, worryingly, still holds.