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Back From the Brink: Coping with Stress Nick Leeson explains how his remarkable story continued after his imprisonment for losing $187 million which let to the collapse of Barings Bank - including his four and a half years in a gang-ridden Singapore jail, the break-up of his marriage, dealing with cancer and recovering to begin a new life. Through a series of conversations with renowned psychologist Ivan Tyrrell, issues including financial worries, illness, addiction, relationships and work pressure are approached with realistic and inspiring mechanisms for survival. At the heart of Nick's experience was stress-induced pressure, something that millions of people in today's society - both at work and in their personal lives - are grappling with. Order Here ROGUE TRADER grippingly tells the inside story of how the greatest gamble ever made rocked the City of London to its foundations. Crackling with tension, in a narrative as crisp as any thriller, Nick Leeson's autobiographical account reveals how he 'lost' GBP800 millions as General Manager of Baring Futures Singapore through foolhardy speculations on behalf of his employer, Barings Brothers - the world's first merchant bank. As Leeson's audacity escalated, so did his losses while London continued to pour money down the drain. ROGUE TRADER is a dazzlingly revealing story of a man shaped by events that proved beyond his control. |
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