:02:05
Nick! Nick!
:02:06
You all right? Nick!
:02:24
lt was thanks to Maggie Thatcher
opening up the City of London...
:02:27
..that yours truly from Watford came to be
working for a posh outfit like Barings.
:02:34
That was me lying on the floor,
if you hadn't guessed. Nick Leeson.
:02:38
You've probably heard about me.
:02:44
Barings was the oldest
private bank in the world.
:02:47
They financed the Louisiana Purchase
back in eighteen hundred and something.
:02:51
They even had the Queen as a customer!
:02:59
l was just a humble clerk.
:03:01
But not for long, l hoped.
:03:03
Car crash.
:03:05
l hit my head on the back
of the seat and broke my nose.
:03:08
Everybody else was all right cos they
were wearing their, um... seat belts.
:03:12
Poor chap!
:03:15
Nick, l know you're keen to get out of the
back office and onto the trading floor,...
:03:20
..but in the meantime
something else has come up.
:03:23
We've got problems in our Jakarta office.
:03:25
We need someone to go out there
and sort things out.
:03:28
l thought that someone might be...
:03:30
..Nick Leeson?
:03:37
lndonesia was one of
the new ''tiger economies''...
:03:40
..everyone was getting so excited about.
:03:43
''Emerging markets''
they were calling them,...
:03:45
..and Barings was one of the first
to see their potential.
:03:49
The rewards were high.
But so were the risks.
:03:54
One hundred million pounds...
:03:55
..in bearer bonds.
:03:57
As good as cash.
:03:59
We could pick 'em up, walk out,...