A recent history of unauthorised trading

Financial News looks at five of the most spectacular losses run up in recent years

Thursday 15 September 2011 at 16:53

Nick Leeson may have the book and film deal, but the Barings trader's losses of £827m look like small change compared with the figures run up by some other rogue traders in recent years. In the wake of today's news that a UBS trader has lost the firm $2bn, we look back at some of the most infamous cases of recent years.

Jérôme Kerviel, Societe Generale, 2008