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 Leesons 1996 book Rogue Trader How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World.

Eventually the losses mount up to well over 800 million and Nick, along with his wife Lisa, decide to leave Singapore and escape to Malaysia. Nick doesnt realise the severity of his losses until he reads in the newspaper that Barings has gone bankrupt. They then decide to return to London but Nick is arrested en route in Frankfurt. Nick is extradited to Singapore where he is sentenced to six and a half years in jail and is diagnosed with colon cancer. Because of this, he did not complete his sentence.Rogue Trader was released onJune 1999 in the UK and the USA. It was distributed by Path in the UK and Cinemax in the USA. It flopped miserably, gaining less thanmillion sterling in the UK. ........

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