February 26, 1995 - Barings PLC, Britain's oldest investment banking firm, collapsed after one of its Singapore-based securities traders (Nick Leeson) lost more than $1.4 billion by gambling on Tokyo stock prices; March 2, 1995 - Leeson arrested.
January 24, 2008 - Societe Generale (one of Europe's biggest banks) revealed it had lost $7.15 billion dollars at hands of a rogue trader (Jerome Kerviel, 31); January 26, 2008 - Kerviel surrendered to the police in Paris. Biggest Trading Losses by 'Rogue Traders
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