Who's life is captured in the 1999 British film about the collapse of Baring's Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest merchest bank, due to fraudulent, speculative trading?
Rogue Trader (film) Rogue Trader is a 1999 British biographical drama film written and directed by James Dearden and starring Ewan McGregor and Anna Friel. The film centers in the life of former derivatives broker Nick Leeson and the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank. It was based on Leeson's 1996 book "Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World".
First International Bank of Grenada The First International Bank of Grenada (FIBG) was an offshore bank that operated between 1996 and 2000, duping thousands of people in a Ponzi scheme. Four people were indicted, the result of a collaborative effort between the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service, estimating a monetary loss from investors at over $170 million.