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Nick Leeson
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Oct 15, 2026
Benjamin JardineGUEST
But I met some amazing people.
Benjamin JardineGUEST
Sally, um, Nick, Nick Leeson.
Benjamin JardineGUEST
Like, do you know what I mean? Nick Leeson, what a guy.
Benjamin JardineGUEST
Do you know what I mean? But, um, so you- you're doing all this, and then you got Roxy there, bless her.
Liam TuffsHOST
Roxy, that's it.
Kim BielenbergGUEST
In the last few months, Iris Reid have done well, and that has attracted interest from foreign buyers.
Kim BielenbergGUEST
And Bearings, an investment company descended from the famous bank that went bust at the instigation of the rogue investor, Nick Leeson.
Kim BielenbergGUEST
They're interested in a takeover, and that would value the company at $1.3 billion.
Kim BielenbergGUEST
The value of the portfolio, I think, is $1.3 billion, and the value of the takeover itself would be $726 billion.
14 MINS LATER
Fionnán SheahanHOST
As you say, they have the cash to buy up existing stock, but they also have the cash to build new.
Fionnán SheahanHOST
And that's what we need, particularly apartment blocks, where there's an obvious cash flow problem for a developer that until the whole thing is finished, there's no cash coming in.
Fionnán SheahanHOST
So an institutional investor is coming along at the start and saying, well, here's the 120 million to build the whole block.
Fionnán SheahanHOST
So we need these guys.
John RobinsHOST
Maybe I, like, like the Barings Bank guy.
Elis JamesHOST
Nick Leeson.
John RobinsHOST
Yeah.
Elis JamesHOST
A lovely little harmless crime-
Sidney MinassianGUEST
Well, I, I...
Sidney MinassianGUEST
It was early in my career where, uh, UK's largest bank, Barings Bank, collapsed because Nick Leeson did rogue trading out of Singapore, held foreign exchange positions that, uh, the entire bank disappeared overnight.
Sidney MinassianGUEST
We saw Bernie Madoff, was it? Take people's money from an investment.
Sidney MinassianGUEST
So again, like we've seen these patterns as humans.
Patrick BoyleHOST
God knows what that nail gun was eventually used for.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Okay, so the last film on the list is Rogue Trader, which came out in 1998 and was based on Nick Leeson's autobiography.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Leeson worked his way up from a back office role at Barings Bank in the 1990s and was eventually sent to Singapore to head up Barings trading operation on the Simex exchange.
Patrick BoyleHOST
The film follows Leeson's rise and the antics he and his friends got up to when they start making a lot of money.
Steven HillHOST
But I don't like zipping through the little hole.
Steven HillHOST
Hole's too small, isn't it? What's all that about, eh? Hey, guys, have you noticed how the hole's too small in the coffee? Coffee cups.
Steven HillHOST
What's all that about, eh? Anyway, is this thing on? Welcome to True Crap Pop.
Steven HillHOST
This is where Sam and I... dissect the worst elements of pop culture history by going through some of the worst albums and make a list of those albums and put them in order of badness we're looking for the worst album ever made ever by anyone and before we get into our album this week we need to say these albums are compiled from their reputation your suggestion their critical standing a fan reaction or some other outside source that makes them just thought of as being quite bad this is uh the episode um that we're going to be doing and so it's not just a slagging stuff off i should say this is episode that we're going to be doing on risk by megadeth the eighth studio album from the us thrash metal legends megadeth which came out on the 31st of august 1999 but don't have a go at us metalheads if we have a go because it's not us people don't like this album um before we get into it anyway sam do you know any any other business before we get going
John RouseGUEST
Yes, precipitated a banking crisis as a result because… Before
Matthew CollinsHOST
Nick Leeson finished it off in the 1990s.
John RouseGUEST
Yes, yes, that's right.
John RouseGUEST
I think he was the undertaker, you might say.
Darren MarlarHOST
Everybody in a company answers to somebody so that no one person can go rogue and take the company down through incompetence or even malicious intent.
Darren MarlarHOST
So maybe it comes as no surprise that a management flaw allowing investment trader Nick Leeson to be in charge of double-checking his own work resulted in the bankruptcy of Britain's oldest bank, Barings Bank.
Darren MarlarHOST
Because nobody could check his work, Leeson made several poor investments in the mid-1990s that he easily hid from his coworkers.
Darren MarlarHOST
By the time anybody knew what was going on, Leeson had gambled away over $1 billion.
Patrick BoyleHOST
God knows what that nail gun was eventually used for.
Patrick BoyleHOST
OK, so the last film on the list is Rogue Trader, which came out in 1998 and was based on Nick Leeson's autobiography.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Leeson worked his way up from a back office role at Barings Bank in the 1990s and was eventually sent to Singapore to head up Barings' trading operation on the Symex exchange.
Patrick BoyleHOST
The film follows Leeson's rise and the antics he and his friends got up to when they start making a lot of money.
Paul MolloyHOST
The next one is, I don't think it's as well known, but it's called Rogue Trader.
Paul MolloyHOST
I've never seen it, but obviously now it's the Nick Leeson story.
Paul MolloyHOST
It's about a guy called Nick Leeson and he worked for Barings Bank.
Paul MolloyHOST
Nick Leeson was from Watford.
Paul MolloyHOST
He was not, unlike Winthorpe, Dan Aykroyd's character, he didn't go to the best of schools.
Paul MolloyHOST
But he was very smart and he was prepared to work hard.
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Paul MolloyHOST
But yeah, no, I do have a pal in this sector and he had nothing but contempt for Jordan Belfort.
Paul MolloyHOST
So what was Belfort doing? Well, the first thing is Belfort was a very, very smart guy.