Rogue Trader Introduction: A rogue trader is a market professional who is basically involved in different unauthorized trading activities. Most people are highly familiar with the rogue trading activities‚ as there have been several instances of huge losses incurred under the rogue trading. Recently these rogue trading activities causing huge losses attracted the media and many films have been based on such rogue trading activities. The rogue trader movie has been highly famous as it portrayed
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A Short Essay of Rogue Trader In the movie Rogue Trader‚ Nick Leeson‚ a trader on behalf of the Barings Bank of England‚ made a series of financial fraud to cover the loss he incurred in trading—up to £800 million—in the Singapore International Monetary Exchange which ultimately led to the fall of Barings Bank. This tragedy was a mixed result of the personal greed and the lack of control in Barings Bank’s system. Most of the COSO internal control frameworks were violated with the “Control Environment”
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In the four scandals of the ‘rogue traders’ and their respective banks‚ factors leading to the incidents are similar. In the Barings Bank and Nick Leeson scandal‚ we see a high management person who rose up to a position after building up on his reputation. Being transferred to the securities department after being promoted to general manager‚ the lack of experience trader along with a group of trading professionals were teamed to garner for smaller profits. Instead of fulfilling his role and work
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Lam Tran BBUS 435 – Accounting Information System Rogue Trader COSO Control Violations Short Essay The movie‚ Rogue Trader‚ narrates the true story of a man named Nick Leeson. He brought the Barings Bank down‚ which was one of the most venerable financial institutions in England. Nick Leeson was played by the actor Ewan McGregor‚ who started working in Indonesia for Barings Bank. He then became a trader on the floor of Singapore International Monetary Exchange. Nick’s responsibility was to trade
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Rogue Trader Name(s) ___________________________ Accounting information systems ____________________________ I understand that this exam is to be completed by myself or in a team of two and that any assistance received from other students or any unauthorized source is cheating and subject to the appropriate disciplinary action as deemed by the Office of the Dean of Albers School of Business and Economics. I (we) am aware of the exam policies / rules provided and agree to abide by
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time passes and the lies began to seem like the truth‚ you dig yourself into a pool of lies which eventually contradicts your first lie. The same truth happens to Nick Lesson and his 8-8-8-8-8 account. It all started with 20‚000 that turned in to millions that turned in to billions that lead to the collapse of Barings Bank. Although Nick Lesson was to blame‚ the direct blame goes to the board of supervisors and management of Barings. According to the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Tread
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REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. Why did Nick Leeson sell numerous short straddles for each long futures contract he bought? When Nick Leeson was being promoted on the Singapore branch of the Barings bank‚ the strategy of the bank was to reduce the risk exposure by using a combination of one short straddle (combination of put / call) and for one long future. Since Nick Leeson used to be a specialist on Future contracts on Nikkei 225 and Japanese 10 years bond and was sure this market would arise. So
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fraud can cause. Nick Lesson‚ a guy who comes from a background of the working class‚ had been working for Royal Bank Coutts‚ Morgan Stanley for a couple of years until he finally joined the Barings. He was assigned a job in Barings (Jakarta) to sort out a back-office mess that involves about £100 million in share certificate. After successfully completing his job assignment‚ Nick was transferred to Barings in Singapore to work as a derivative trader for both Singapore and Japan. Nick caused the lost
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Commodities Trading: Nick Leeson‚ Internal Controls and the Collapse of Barings Bank __________________________________________________________________________________________ Commodities Trading: Nick Leeson‚ Internal Controls and the Collapse of Barings Bank By Sam Bhugaloo Page 1 of 21 Commodities Trading: Nick Leeson‚ Internal Controls and the Collapse of Barings Bank __________________________________________________________________________________________ Table of Content
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Singapore between 1992 and 1995 enabled Nick Leeson to operate effectively without supervision from Barings Bank in London. Leeson acted both as head of settlement operations (charged with ensuring accurate accounting) and as floor manager for Barings’ trading onSingapore International Monetary Exchange‚ or SIMEX. This placed Leeson in the position of reporting to an office inside Barings Bank which he himself held. Because of the absence of oversight‚ Leeson was able to make seemingly small gambles
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