Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World

Leeson, Nick,Whitley, Edward

ISBN 10: 0316518565 / ISBN 13: 9780316518567

Published by Little Brown & Co, 1996

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First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($24.95 price intact). Published by Little, Brown & co., 1996. Octavo. Black cloth over white boards stamped in red. Book is very good. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light spotting to top page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear and spotting to the inner top edge. 273 pages. ISBN: 9780316518567. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316518565
• ISBN 13: 9780316518567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Few news stories have grabbed the world's headlines quite like the collapse of Barings merchant bank in late February 1995.
Trusted with the finances of royalty, aristocracy, and major corporations for more than two hundred years, Barings had apparently been brought down by the covert trading activities of just one man, leaving the bank with losses of over $1 billion.
Rogue Trader takes us from Leeson's humble beginnings as the son of a plasterer to the very heart of the cutthroat empire he made his own: SIMEX, the Singapore money market that witnessed both Leeson's phenomenal rise to prominence and his devastating fall from grace. It is a portrait of organized chaos, revealing not only the frenetic culture of the trading pit, but also the ways in which Leeson dealt with his losses, avoided detection, and became the object of an international manhunt that sparked the most extraordinary news story in recent years.
Pressure, pace, error: Leeson reveals the inside story of this amazing chain of events. With a narrative as crisp as any thriller, Rogue Trader is the fascinating account of a man shaped by events that proved to be beyond his control.