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Nicholas William Leeson [2] (born 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 court and served over four years in Changi Prison.
Rogue Trader - Core Rulebook, including a pre-written adventure (ISBN 978-1589946750) The Game Master's Kit - A game master's screen for Rogue Trader and a booklet that includes a pre-written adventure, an NPC starship generator and a star system generator; Lure of the Expanse - A sourcebook containing three adventures
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 ...
One famous rogue trader is Nick Leeson, whose losses on unauthorized investments in index futures contracts were sufficient to bankrupt his employer Barings Bank in 1995. . Through a combination of poor judgment on his part, increasingly large initial profits, lack of oversight by management, a naïve regulatory environment, and an unforeseen outside event, the Kobe earthquake, Leeson incurred ...
In 2009, Fantasy Flight Games released Rogue Trader, a role-playing game based on Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. In this RPG, the players specifically play the roles of a rogue trader and their retinue, whereas in Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, this was merely a recommended option. A rogue trader is a human who has been licensed by the ...
EDB received an additional grant of S$40 million to develop Jurong Industrial Estate from the Singapore government. [13] [14] 1962 was also the year which Singapore begun to actively woo overseas industrialists as such the Japanese, [15] with some indicating interests in joint development projects and sending study missions to Singapore. [16]
Bisby entered journalism after sending an unsolicited article to a local paper as a PR exercise for his building company. Bisby worked on several building trade publications for Hamerville Publishing including Professional Builder magazine (for which he has been Products Editor for 16 years), Professional Electrician , Professional Heating and ...
Infinity Core (Singapore) Infold Games (Singaporean publishing subsidiary of Chinese dev, Papergames) Interactive Digital Dreams Pte Ltd; Inzen Studio (Mobile games. Invested in by Baidu [4]) Jaysonite Studios; Joysteak Studios; Kepler Interactive (Publisher. Co-HQ.) Kepler Ghost (Publisher) KOEX studio; L.A.I Singapore Pte Ltd (Coin-op ...