(1999) — Rogue Trader

Barings Bank, which had survived the Napoleonic Wars and financed the Louisiana Purchase, was declared insolvent and sold to the Dutch bank ING for the symbolic price of . The Aftermath

Because he was in charge of both the trading floor and the back-office reporting (the "settlements"), he was effectively his own boss, allowing him to cook the books and make it look like he was making millions while he was actually drowning. The Kobe Earthquake Rogue Trader (1999)

Leeson was eventually caught in Germany and sentenced to six and a half years in a Singaporean prison. The 1999 film, starring , captures that claustrophobic spiral of a man who wasn't necessarily a criminal mastermind, but a gambler who simply didn't know when to fold. Barings Bank, which had survived the Napoleonic Wars