Rogue Trader - 1999 - UK15 - Part 1/7.

British drama based on a true story, starring Ewan McGregor and Anna Friel.

Ambitious, wide-boy Nick Leeson is determined to rise in the world and be more than a simple bank clerk. When his employers, Barings Bank, offer him the opportunity to go to Jakarta to sort out a problem that nobody else wants, he seizes the opportunity with both hands. In Jakarta he meets and marries Lisa and together they go to Singapore when the bank offers him the job of setting up their future options trading operation. To save money the bank allows Nick to operate both the floor trading and the back office facilities and force him to employ cheap, unskilled staff. His first year of trading is a big success and he makes large profits for the bank even though he has illegally broken trading rules and secretly covered up losses. Given more freedom, even more money and continuing unchecked, Nick starts to make losses and again attempts to trade out of them but this time he comes unstuck as his illegal trading generates even bigger losses...

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• part1

[juufdesigns]

thumbs up if USB brought you here too lol

[JonathanIppy]

@LaraTwoPointO "Well when they told me I was going to Jakarta, I had to look it up on a map!"

[cameronsacunt]

Nothing wrong with the system...Just make sure you get in and make some money so your on the right side of the fence...If there where no markets or trade we would all be slaves without keys to the handcuffs! That's why the system works people. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and going against the system or your be cleaning my f//king toilet for a living!

[LaraTwoPointO]

@JonathanIppy Thanks for that, I must have replayed that a million times trying to work it out lol

[Elesparto]

@XmXFLUXmX2

You must be either a young up and coming aristocrat or an old white aristocrat who believes everyone else should be relegated to the role of servant to your class. I will never serve your kind in any capacity, none. And there are millions like me who hold nothing but contempt for this stupid economic system. Victory against the new world order!!!!

[XmXFLUXmX2]

@Elesparto Fuck off commie. Your anti-white conspiracy theories are laughable as well as your admiration of Communism, you miserable twat.

[Elesparto]

@dagda825

Yes, exactly what I was trying to achieve--to blame this lie of an economic system, created by old white aristocrat bankers. You are trying to fix effects instead of the actual cause--the system itself. The current economy safeguards the assets of wealthy aristocrats, so any regulations, protocols, and and anything else they might throw in is meant only to insure that they alone control the levers. I do not see where this system runs smoothly and helps people on a whole.

[dagda825]

@Elesparto But you're blaming the system for the abuses of it's players. The system, when it is well regulated, works beautifully. What I would do differently is re-establish the old, regulatory safeguards. In this instance, the bank hired the same guy to run both sides of the trade, an error in judgement. Especially given that traders are thrill seekers in the extreme [or they wouldn't run these risks]. If Barings had someone else looking at Leeson's books, he'd have been gone long ago.

[Elesparto]

@yonataneshel

I see you're a brain washed person who believes all the lies of the powers that be...

[Elesparto]

@dagda825

I would start by seeing it for what it is--a huge pyramid scheme--so huge that it's only now beginning to collapse--on a personal level one can come to understand what a fraud this system is and not participate in its growth at any level. It's always good to learn about its inner workings so that you understand how the fraud works. What would I do differently? Now there's a good question.

[yonataneshel]

@Elespartor

wanker