I was getting to the top, making all the important decisions. I was the guy, and it felt amazing,' says Nick Leeson today. One of his fellow traders said at the time: 'We all admired Nick because ...

It takes one to know one, as they say. So explains Nick Leeson’s journey from single-handedly crashing one of the world's oldest banks to investigating financial misconduct three decades later.

Nick Leeson was Barings Bank's star trader on the Singapore International Monetary Exchage (SIMEX). He regularly reported huge profits. In truth though, he was gambling with the bank's money ...