Tom Leeson, Steamboat Springs’ newly appointed city manager, embodies the spirit of a true Coloradan. Leeson was born in ...

Nick Leeson was born in Watford in February 1967 and left school after A-Levels to became a clerk in the Lombard Street branch of Coutts bank. By 1987 he had moved to a “back office” (that is ...

Leeson ultimately served about four years in Singaporean prison for attempting to cover up his bad trades. In the ensuing decades, Leeson — who describes himself as London’s “original rogue ...

FLASH FRIDAY is sponsored by Instinet, a Nomura company.) On February 24, 1995, Barings Bank received a fax from fugitive trader Nick Leeson. In the fax, Leeson apologized for his trading losses that ...