{"product_id":"rogue-trader-the-original-story-of-the-banker-who-broke-the-system","title":"Rogue Trader: The Original Story of the Banker Who Broke the System","description":"\u003cp\u003eHair-raising ' Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\n'Simultaneously entertaining and appalling ' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years ago - before Lehman Brothers; before PPI; before a global recession and crises with the Euro - before all that, there was Nick Leeson, the original rogue trader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Leeson was arrested in 1995 for bringing Barings Bank to its knees, it initially seemed as if he had single-handedly crushed the company. Indeed, it was he alone who found himself in the dark confines of a Singapore jail, from where he wrote Rogue Trader . Now updated for the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of Barings, this is his story of a broken system; of a cast of characters blind to anything but profits - whatever the cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeeson's tale of boom and bust is an important reminder of the immense power the banking system held and, worryingly, still holds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54016591593840,"sku":"978-0751563399","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_8867_b51a9c61c6.jpg?v=1783672688","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/rogue-trader-the-original-story-of-the-banker-who-broke-the-system","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}