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	Tel: 0845 458 2581	Nick Leeson An Ant who toppled the Elephant. The downfall of Barings, and Nick Leeson’s part in it, is one of the most spectacular debacles in modern financial history. He was the one trader who brought down the banking empire that had funded the Napoleonic Wars. Nick Leeson, the young gambler who trapped himself in a huge loss was a working-class boy who lived high in an upper-class world until his unnoticed gambling caused the downfall of Barings, the banker to the English peerage and caused chaos in the Singaporean money market. Markets have always been cruel, but rarely have they been so cruel so swiftly — and on such a humungous scale. Nick talks about what happened, the lack oft accounting safeguards, his capture and confinement for nine months in a Frankfort prison and being sentenced to 6 ½ years by the Singapore court for forgery and cheating. He also talks about being diagnosed with cancer and his fight against it.

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