Rogue Trader (film)
- Ewan McGregor: Nick Leeson
- Anna Friel: Lisa Leeson
- Yves Beneyton: Pierre Beaumarchais
- Betsy Brantley: Brenda Granger
- Caroline Langrishe: Ash Lewis
- Nigel Lindsay: Ron Baker
- Tim McInnerny: Tony Hawes
- Irene Ng: Bonnie Lee
- Lee Ross: Danny Argyropoulos
- Simon Shepherd: Peter Norris
- John Standing: Peter Baring
Two for the Money - The Nick Leeson Story is a British movie from 1999, which deals with the exchange transactions by Nick Leeson and thus triggered the bankruptcy of Barings Bank. The main characters are Ewan McGregor and Anna Friel. The film is based on the book " Rogue Trader" by Nick Leeson.
Action
Nick Leeson worked in London as a clerk for the prestigious Barings Bank. He is transferred to Jakarta, where he met his future wife, Lisa, who is also working for Barings. Thereafter, he was promoted to general manager of Barings Securities Singapore office, with responsibility for the recruitment of distributors and the management and control of commercial transactions. Leeson is finally securities trader on the SIMEX (Singapore Monetary Exchange ), which for him is a long cherished dream come true.
Nick Leeson begins to speculate without authorization. His losses he posted to the secret account 88888, the ( fictional) profits received by the Bank. Because of its apparent success, he soon rises to a star trader. His position within Barings is unassailable. Demands from headquarters he met by consuming excuses. With forged documents he feigns relationships with third parties, on whose behalf he allegedly carried out the speculation.
Apart from brief periods Leeson loses his speculations from the outset money. The losses on the hidden account are always higher. Leeson attempted to compensate for the losses accrued by ever more daring speculations and falls in his free time increasingly on by excessive alcohol consumption and rowdiness. Having several stewardesses shown in a bar his naked rump, Leeson is sentenced to a fine for " immoral self-revelation ."
After the earthquake in Kobe in 1995 and the subsequent crash of the Nikkei, the deficit increased to about 400 million British pounds. Leeson finally puts everything on one card and tried by extremely high-risk speculation to turn things around. In vain - the losses increase dramatically within a few weeks to finally reach 825 million pounds sterling and have a little later the collapse of Barings Bank result.
Leeson fled with his wife to Frankfurt to escape an arrest in Singapore. He was arrested at Frankfurt airport and shipped to Singapore where he is sentenced to six little later half years in prison for forgery, embezzlement and fraud. After a cancer diagnosis Leeson is released early after four and a half years in prison.
Reviews
The lexicon of the International film praises next to the " excellent " protagonist also the approach of the film, the " difficult to understand the stock market fabric moves with a lot of speed to body." Nevertheless, the film wearing " little enlightening " to the financial affair when I'm in total " on solid mediocrity not get out. "