Total Risk: Nick Leeson and the Fall of Barings Bank

by Judith H. Rawnsley

Provides an inside account of the shocking bankruptcy of the two-hundred-year-old British bank and the twenty-eight-year-old rogue trader in Singapore who caused its collapse. Reprint.

Genres: Economics

272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1995

Reviews

[Monzenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just gets to five stars in the last few chapters. But I should have expected this; I knew I would be less interested with the history of Barings itself and more interested with the (ahem) juicy details of trading operations and its abuse. Leeson knew what he was doing, targeting aspects of the system that he knew management would be less concerned about. Am not yet interested with the more famous book (his autobiography), but even if I don't get a chance to get Rogue Trader, Total Risk is a great read on a horrible trading scandal.