Barings rogue trader Nick Leeson lands insolvency job

Ex-banker who lost £827 million and caused the Queen's bank to collapse now advising those in debt

Former rogue trader Nick Leeson speaks addresses a packed audience at a business seminar in Hong Kong on June 03, 2008.The former derivatives trader caused the collapse of the UK's oldest inv
(Image credit: 2008 AFP)

NICK LEESON, the rogue trader who infamously racked up £827 million of trading losses at Barings Bank in the 1990s, has a new job – as an insolvency practitioner.

Since being released from prison in Singapore, Leeson has spent 13 years on the after-dinner speaking circuit. The Dublin-based former banker is now joining restructuring specialists GDP Partnership as a partner, to advise those in debt to Ireland's banks.

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