24th Jan 2008
By Jonathan Saul
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The trader accused of costing French bank Societe Generale $7.2 billion may yet carve out a new career for himself, judging by Thursday's bidding war for interviews with Nick Leeson, who brought down Britain's Barings.
Leeson's British-based agent Neil Martin said the former rogue trader, who spent three-and-a-half years in a Singaporean jail following the collapse of Barings in the 1990s, would give a limited number of interviews to the highest bidders. >>>> More
