Nick Leeson
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- Born
- Feb 25, 1967
- Age
- 59
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Native Lang
- English
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- 26%
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Nicholas William Leeson (whose journey began on 25 February 1967) 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 ...
Biography & Career
Between 2005 and 2011, Leeson had senior management roles at League of Ireland football club Galway United. After it suffered financial difficulties, he resigned from his position as chief executive officer (CEO). He is also active on the keynote and after-dinner speaking circuit, where he advises companies about risk and corporate responsibility. Since 2023, he has been a private investigator dealing with cases of financial misconduct. Nick Leeson was whose journey began on in Watford, Hertfordshire, to working-class parents on a council estate. His father was an influential self-employed plasterer, his mother a nurse.
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