Author | Nick Leeson |
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Language | English |
Genre | Finance |
Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
Publication date | February 19, 1996 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 274 pp. |
ISBN | 0-316-87971-1 |
Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World is a book by Nick Leeson, who served four years in prison for fraud after bankrupting the London-based Barings Bank in 1995 by hiding $1.4 billion in debt he accumulated as a derivatives trader in Singapore. The book was released on February 19, 1996, by Little, Brown & Company.[1]