Nick Leeson @TheNickLeeson Twitter profile

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

8 years

I got six and a half years for 862m, what will Johnson, Gove and Farage get?

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8 years

For all the talk of shares bounceback, FTSE 250 has now lost £31.6bn since day before #Brexit vote.

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Thank you to everyone who voted over the last few weeks. Delighted and surprised, the tortoise

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Amazing!!! 4th place.... Well done Nick! 👏🏻👏🏻 A huge thank you to everyone who supported and voted for Nick. 👍🏻 He’ll be deeply appreciative of the support and sure you’ll hear from the man himself when he has his Twitter back. #cbb

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Finally get back to Ireland this evening. Thank you for all the kind words

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

7 years

Nikkei225 at highest level today since 1996 - probably not far off my break-even point. If only they'd waited!!

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

@Rylan @bbuk Closed the Bank, now Big Brother - better not come out for a while!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Rogue Trader back on Amazons Best Sellers list. If you buy one, I'll gladly sign it!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

5 years

I, inadvertently was shown an amalgam of clips from CBB, specifically the lies that Roxanne told. She was fake from minute one and I cant understand how anyone entertained her lies. Ryan on the other hand was and is a true gentleman.

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Nick has made it to the #cbb final! Thank you all so much for your overwhelming support, kind words and messages over these past three weeks. @bbuk

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

On my way to @talkRADIO @EamonnHolmes interview. Will be on air shortly after 4:30pm.

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

#WIN a signed copy of ROGUE TRADER 🎬 the movie about Nick’s remarkable story starring @mcgregor_ewan and @annafriel . Just follow, retweet and give us a thumbs up to enter. #roguetrader #nickleeson #cbb #cbbuk #competition

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@TheNickLeeson

8 years

Sitting on a plane to Heathrow in the middle of 50 Japanese tourists. They have no idea how hard I tried to keep the Nikkei 225 above 35,000

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

I’ll be drawing the winner of this tomorrow afternoon so there’s still time to enter.

Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

#WIN a signed copy of ROGUE TRADER 🎬 the movie about Nick’s remarkable story starring @mcgregor_ewan and @annafriel . Just follow, retweet and give us a thumbs up to enter. #roguetrader #nickleeson #cbb #cbbuk #competition

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

How much can I lose in the first hour of trading?

ForexLive

@ForexLive

6 years

Bitcoin futures start trading in 1 hour at the CBOE. What's going to happen?

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Crazy markets the last few weeks. Reminds me of 23 years ago as the Nikkei225 was crumbling, knock out options were accelerating the decline and I was long 100,000 futures contracts and short 60,000 options contracts and trying to manage risk. Not surprising it didn't work!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

5 years

20 years ago at exactly this time (8am) I was due to be released from Tanah Merah prison in Singapore, I got an unexpected bonus..................... I could stay until 10pm!!!!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Long trip to Australia starting now

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

24.02.95, first thing in the morning pick up a copy of the Asian Wall Street Journal, headline reads 'British Bank collapses!' My first thought; that's great someone's in more shit than me today! It was me

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

@kirstiealley Rest assured, if Kirstie Alley is doing it, it will be wonderful, inventive, ground breaking and hilarious

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

At a corporate dinner. Had to change my after dinner speech a little tonight!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

7 years

Rogue Trader running at 3pm at Leopardstown tomorrow 8-1, 107,750,000 to win should get me out of the shit!!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

4 years

21 years ago today was the longest day of my life. Waiting to be released from Tanah Merah Prison, you count every second as the clock slowly ticks round. As bad as the previous four and a half years had been, time stood still for the last couple of weeks

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

23 years ago on the 23rd February 1995, I fled Singapore after my unauthorised trading put Barings on the brink of collapse, by tomorrow it was well on the way. Off to the Casino tonight, everything on number 23

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@TheNickLeeson

4 years

In 1998 I spent 31 days in solitary confinement in Singapore with a cat flap for my food delivery. Might not be life’s best lesson but putting structure into my day helped. Rest assured, we all have the innate ability to overcome and you will!!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

7 years

Nikkei at nearly 21,300, surely that's triggered my bonus!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Please keep voting to MAKE NICK YOUR WINNER 🏆 Call: Mobile: 6 50 58 09 Landline: 090 20 44 58 09 Calls to the long number will cost 50p plus your network access charge. Calls to the short number will cost 50p. .. #cbb ⁠ ⁠ #celebritybigbrother #nicktowin #cbbnick #nickleeson

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

3 years

Fair bit of talk about ‘doubling’ down on Tesla and Bitcoin this morning, certain funds and well known investors - never ends well! The logic being offered is ‘If you liked it at 50K, you love it at 30K.’ Still have a few Nikkei225 futures at 39,500 if anyone’s interested??

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

4 years

It has taken the recovery from a pandemic for the Nikkei225 to hit a 29 year high. Still a very long way to go to the highs of the early nineties but is there any chance I can get my position back that I left in the 88888 account please?

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Okay, that’s it! My bitcoin career was shorter than my Barings one. Much shorter!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Out with my beautiful wife & @TheNickLeeson & lyndsyvictoria in the fabulous @rusticstone great food & company

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Nick's #cbb exit interview

Nick's interview with Emma | Celebrity Big Brother 2018

Nick sits down with Emma to talk about doing time in the Celebrity Big Brother House.SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/BBUKYTWatch full episodes on My5: http://bit.ly...

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 months

Travelling through Frankfurt airport last night for the first time in a long time. No arrest, no police escort, no extradition to Singapore - far more pleasant

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Released from Tanah Merah Prison twenty three years ago today!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

3 years

Wondered why I was getting itchy feet today. Today is the day that I fled Singapore 26 years ago! I’d be in trouble if it was this year, COVID would have meant it was the Causeway or nothing

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

breakfast in Sydney this morning

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

To vote for Nick please call: Mobile: 6 50 58 09 Landline: 090 20 44 58 09 Calls to the long number will cost 50p plus your network access charge. Calls to the short number will cost 50p. .. #cbb #celebritybigbrother #nicktowin #cbbnick #cbbnickleeson #nickleeson

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

7 years

Fifty years old today, seemed a long way off in 1998, diagnosed with cancer, one year remaining of a prison sentence in Singapore.

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

I was having a good day until someone brought this up!

Cryptolord

@cryptoyears

6 years

On this day in 1995, rogue trader Nick Leeson was jailed for 6 years in Singapore, for fraud relating to the collapse of Barings Bank. #90s #OnThisDay

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

4 years

Was asked thismorning, what stocks would I be buying This wasnt tongue in cheek but the answer was bank stocks,they've been decimated and not by me!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

7 years

Every time the Nikkei225 approaches or trades above 20,000 I think it has a panic attack that I'm still there

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Nikkei225 at a 26 year high. All is forgotten, Roppongi here I come!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Had a great time on @JeremyVineOn5 this morning with @Rehman_Chishti @jasminedotiwala and @theJeremyVine #JeremyVine #jeremyvineon5 #channel5 . Thanks for having me on.

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

2 years

Fled Singapore 27 years ago today. Often asked what was my worst decision during that period, there were many! Answer is probably moving to Singapore almost 30 years ago - simply wasn’t ready!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Want to see Nick take the crown and win #cbb then here are the numbers you will need @TVandSoaps2018

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

After being reminded it's exactly 22 years since I was sentenced in Singapore. It reminds me that I spent the first week in the 'killers' cell. The other lad had killed several people and was hung in April 1996, I had killed a bank!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Got an email from a former board member at Barings today. Former Barings traders had a get together this week. Still no invite. FFS it was only a joke!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

It’s easy to remember all the bad anniversaries/dates. This year it’s 20 years since I was diagnosed with cancer, proof there is hope!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Definitely not heading into the jungle but talking at the 30th annual nikkei225 futures dinner in Sydney is equally unexpected!

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

The moment you’re told to dress up and act like a turtle on national tv. 😳🐢 #cbb

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

@Mohsi_n @chrisjparrish I lost £862m going long the nikkei. I am only going short bitcoin

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@TheNickLeeson

6 years

I'll pass myself but I do recommend it for anyone who wants to hear a fascinating story of how everything can very quickly go wrong. I was rightly punished for my crimes

Storytec

@StorytecUK

6 years

Re-live one of the biggest news stories of the 90s with Rogue Trader by @TheNickLeeson who recently finished fourth in Celebrity Big Brother. Download the #audiobook we produced for @audibleuk narrated by @AndyCresswell #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #CBB

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Talking to Matt Cooper after 5.30 this evening on The Last Word on TodayFM - enjoy!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Speaking this afternoon in Amsterdam for @CFASocietyVBAnl annual ethics event.

CFA Society Netherlands

@cfavba

6 years

“Complacency is the first thing to set in when markets are good. That is when organizations should make sure controls are in place.” @TheNickLeeson

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

5 years

Can you dig up the floorboards and see if I left anything!

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@opposite_bob

5 years

@TheNickLeeson I'm currently working at raffles place and was surprised to find a baring office still here

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

5 years

Yes, the last few days are the same as the collapse of Barings 24 years ago. I fled Singapore on the 23rd Feb 1995. was arrested 2nd March What's the chances of one birthday (25/2) without being reminded about the collapse of the bank? …. thought so

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

@channel5_tv @ryanjamesthomas @bbuk @JeremyVineOn5 Top man

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

A big thank you to everyone who entered! The winner is... @BillTempler Congratulations. Please DM me your address and we’ll get this sent out to you.

Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

#WIN a signed copy of ROGUE TRADER 🎬 the movie about Nick’s remarkable story starring @mcgregor_ewan and @annafriel . Just follow, retweet and give us a thumbs up to enter. #roguetrader #nickleeson #cbb #cbbuk #competition

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

7 years

Where have all the Rogue Traders gone? Markets at highs, lots of self congratulation, complacency rife. More than likely one out there somewhere!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

3 years

It's okay to fail sometimes... #success #failure #MentalHealthAwareness

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

7 years

Boarding a flight to Singapore, keynote address at a conference later in the week. REALLY not sure that this is a good idea!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Thank you for all the kind comments and support following Nick's entrance into #CBB last night! If you want to know more about his fascinating story, see how it all unfolded with this timeline of events: #NickLeeson #CelebrityBigBrother

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Christmas is cancelled. One day trading Bitcoin and I’ve done my brains!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

4 years

I was approached recently by a TV production company to do a documentary in Singapore. What do you think? Too much jeopardy?

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

9 years

Twenty years on, Nikkei approaching 20,000, I'd start making money - cant believe they didnt wait!!!!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

@Rylan @VirginMediaIE @VirginMedia_3 Rylan, not amused. The wife is pulling her hair out, there's a lot of it! Unlike me.

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

5 years

As the Nikkei225 fell from 39,000 to 18,000, I always thought tomorrow might be a better day. Theresa May feeling the same today. New vote anyone? #BrexitShambles #BrexitEndgame #BrexitDay

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

3 months

Just realised its 29 years ago today that I fled Singapore! No wonder the markets are kicking my arse today!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

4 months

Nikkei225 hitting a 34 year high. How much would that position be worth now!!😳

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Two of these to sign and personalise if required. Let me know if you're interested, they are copies

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

To get your copy of Rogue Trader signed by me, please email my agents @NMPLive via office @nickleeson .com and they’ll send you instructions.

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

3 years

Watching Papillon tonight, he’s just gone to solitary confinement. Sent a chill through me, reminds me of the 30 days I spent in solitary in Singapore, walking up and down, hour after hour. 30 days was tough, two years???

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

7 years

Just remembered an award I was given in 1994 for the highest customer volume on SIMEX (95% =88888 account). I wonder if I can collect it?

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

3 years

I have been asked to do some strange things over the years but yesterday may have been the strangest. Fact checking and answering a few questions for my own obituary at the Wall Street Journal ; you won’t recognize me 😇. Not being used anytime soon

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

1 year

As spectacular falls from grace go, mine was pretty spectacular. Alleged City whizz-kid to inmate 38406 at Tanah Merah Maximum Security Prison in Singapore within three years. Outstripping me by a country mile is Sam Bankman Fried...

FTX – How does this still happen? | Nick Leeson Blog

As spectacular falls from grace go, mine was pretty spectacular. Alleged City whizz-kid to inmate 38406 at Tanah Merah Maximum Security Prison in Singapore within three years. Outstripping me by a...

www.nickleeson.com

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

2 years

I own this stock. Do you think it’s telling me something?

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Nick has never described himself as a “motivational” speaker but perhaps he has a new calling... 🤣

Big Brother UK

@bbuk

6 years

. @TheNickLeeson 's giving the housemates that #FridayFeeling with the best motivational speech EVER! 📢🎅 #CBB

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

4 years

It's my Birthday And also 25 years ago today since I broke the UK’s oldest merchant bank with illegal losing trades of over 1.4 billion dollars and the phrase, ‘Rogue Trader’ was coined. My big Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) is now live. Click below.

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

7 years

Saw Rogue Trader on a training course today with students.First time I've seen it in about 12 years.Not sure if I should laugh, cry or hide!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

4 years

There are definite signs that the markets are settling down. The majority of us are in lockdown, we all know that Coronavirus will get worse before it gets better and the peak will be in the next 10 days. Our resilience is showing through in the markets.

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

8 years

I'm just getting over the Johnson, Farage and Gove £31.6bn and now Pistorius only gets 6 years for Murder! I want a rebate!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

8 years

If only I had a bank left to sue!

Sky News

@SkyNews

8 years

French bank ordered by a labour tribunal to pay £350,000 to a rogue trader

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

It’s almost nomination time! #cbb @bbuk @channel5_tv #celebritybigbrother #roguetrader

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

8 years

@mickconlan11 thinking of applying to be an AIBA referee. Only job that having a prison sentence for fraud should be a help not a hindrance!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

9 years

I promise I'm not in China!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

7 years

14th on the list of all time losses!! I'm back in training and looking for a new bank, number 1 by christmas!

List of trading losses - Wikipedia

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Stopped by @NMPLive to sign some copies of #RogueTrader this morning. Now on route to @TheLawSociety for a keynote speech.

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

Always worked for me!

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6 years

Would you employ someone who put on their CV “I am a very stable genius”?

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

I did a bit of ticket touting back in the day, can you put my name forward please

Kieran Cunningham

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6 years

Three massive jobs in Irish sport up for grabs - CEOs of Olympic Council of Ireland and Athletics Ireland, and Director General of GAA. Appointments will be very interesting - and important.

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Nick Leeson

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2 years

NEW YEARS HONOURS LIST - you heard it hear first. I was in the City yesterday and was asked ‘Do you know how many Compliance jobs you created, not only in London but across the globe?’ - seems only fair!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

5 years

In New York for a few days, this is what happened last time I was here. #WallStreet - beware!!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

When I lived in Singapore, there was a political prisoner under permanent house arrest on Sentosa. I wonder if they would do the world a favour?

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

4 years

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Chris Banks

@chrisbanks_nmp

4 years

#RethinkReskillReboot #RogueTrader

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

23 years ago, First person I would have seen at breakfast in the Regent Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, would have been the head of Barings Malaysia - not great when I'd left the can of worms I had in Singapore, thankfully he didnt have a clue!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

4 years

25 Years ago on this day, I fled Singapore before finding out I'd broken a bank! Want to find out what i'm braking this week... Monday 6pm - Newstalk Tuesday 7pm - Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) All week -

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

@kirstiealley Now I know what you were doing in the house toilets, collecting poop xx

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

4 years

GOLD suffered its worst daily fall in over 7 years yesterday and has continued in the same direction overnight falling to as low as $1862 this morning before recovering slightly. The rally to these levels was spectacular but the demise has been equally jaw dropping.

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

6 years

And so begins the worst week of my life. By the end of it, I have a bank collapse and a birthday to deal with - life certainly throws up some weird circumstances!

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Nick Leeson

@TheNickLeeson

4 years

Coming soon. Full episode available Sunday. @LondonRealTV