Rogue Trader (1999) on Netflix
Nick Leeson, a Barings Bank clerk, is sent to Singapore to run the firm's options trading. There he handles both the trading floor and the back office, hiding his losses.
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- Rotten Tomatoes30%
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Plot summary
Nick Leeson works as a clerk at Barings Bank and wants to rise beyond that desk. The bank offers him a posting to Jakarta to sort out a problem no one else will take, and he accepts. In Jakarta he meets Lisa, and they marry. Barings then sends him to Singapore to set up its options trading operation on the SIMEX exchange. To keep costs down, the bank lets him run the trading floor and the back office together and staffs the desk with untrained hires. His first year of trading earns the bank large profits, even though he has broken trading rules and concealed losses in a hidden account. With more freedom and more money, and no one checking him, he begins to lose.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rogue Trader (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Following an interview with Nick Leeson in prison, Sir David Frost realized the potential for a movie and optioned the rights to his story; Frost executive produced the film, which was based on Leeson's 1996 book Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World.
- Rogue Trader flopped in cinemas. Released in the United Kingdom on 25 June 1999 in 174 cinemas, it grossed £269,871 in its opening weekend for fifth place, and ended up taking less than £1 million in the country.
- During a bar scene the Blur song "Song 2" is heard playing, which is an anachronism: the track was not released until three years after the point at which the scene is set.
