A Crooked Derivatives Trader With a Sense of Humor

Nick Leeson, a former derivatives broker whose fraudulent, unauthorised trading caused the spectacular collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest merchant bank, tweets out:

Sitting on a plane to Heathrow in the middle of 50 Japanese tourists. They have no idea how hard I tried to keep the Nikkei 225 above 35,000

— Nick Leeson (@TheNickLeeson) June 21, 2016

Leeson pleaded guilty to two counts of "deceiving the bank's auditors and of cheating the Singapore exchange" and served prison time in Changi Prison in Singapore.

-RW

(ht drewmx)