Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images
Yoshiyoshi Hirokawa/Getty Images
Courtesy of Goldman Sachs
Nick Leeson is an English former derivatives trader who caused the collapse of Barings, London's oldest merchant bank, which had operated for 233 years. Working in the bank's Singapore office, he made a series of unauthorized speculative trades that ultimately lost $1.2 billion.
Giuseppe Lombardo/Getty Images
Courtesy of BNY