Episode #117 - Justin Chait
In this episode, we sit down with the newly crowned 2025 E-Foil Surf Foil World Tour (SFT) World Champion – the undefeated e-foil racer who took the title in the season finale in Abu Dhabi.
Fresh off dominating the inaugural SFT season, the Florida-based ripper (and Flightboard early adopter) joins…
Surf Foil World Tour (SFT) Show #2: Recap of Atlanta Foil Fest 2025
In this episode we catch up with Tom Hartmann about the Atlanta Foil Fest at Lake Lanier’s Olympic Park. Tom dives into the three-day event, featuring E-Foil, Pump Foil, Wake Foil, and Airchair foiling competitions, alongside demos and clinics. From Justin Chait dominant performance to Nick Leason’…
I Lost £862 Million & Collapsed a 233-Year-Old Bank
In 1995, Nick Leeson brought down the UK’s oldest merchant bank, Barings, with £862 million in hidden losses. The final hit to Barings was £827 million, triggering one of the biggest financial collapses in history. He explains how it really happened and how things spiralled over time. Was it fear o…
EP026: Michael Howell on Capital Wars, and the Hidden Flows That Really Drive the World Markets
Before you read the show notes below, subscribe to Michael Howell’s Capital Wars on Substack. More than 60,000 readers already follow his work for a reason: he has spent a lifetime tracking the invisible forces that actually move markets, liquidity, collateral, currencies, central banks, and global…
Nick Leeson and the Fall of Barings Bank
Nick Leeson hid a £10,000 trading error in a secret account in 1992 — by February 1995, it had grown to £827 million and destroyed Barings Bank, Britain's oldest merchant bank, founded in 1762.
Operating from Singapore, Leeson controlled both the trading floor and the back office, meaning no one …
Managing Operational Risk in a Changing World
Welcome to another Book Club edition! In this episode, host Kimberley Cole sits down with Penny Cagan, industry veteran, academic at Columbia and NYU, and author of Managing Operational Risk in a Changing World. From navigating the "heady days" of Basel II in the immediate aftermath of Nick Leeson'…
Rogue Trader Downfall: How Nick Leeson Crashed Barings and What It Teaches Us Today
Enter one of finance's most infamous cautionary tales in this episode of This Week in Wall Street History. Host Todd M. Schoenberger recounts how in 1995, a single trader in Barings Bank’s Singapore office, Nick Leeson, spiraled the venerable institution into ruin by hiding speculative trading loss…
The Rogue Trader: Nick Leeson and the Collapse of Barings Bank
In this episode of "This Week in Wall Street History," host Todd M. Schoenberger delves into the dramatic downfall of Barings Bank, Britain's oldest merchant bank, brought about by the actions of a single trader, Nick Leeson. In the early 1990s, Leeson was a rising star at Barings, generating signi…
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