He wasn’t a superstar. He wasn’t from an elite school. He was just one man... but one man who cost Société Générale over SEVEN BILLION dollars.

By exploiting his knowledge of back-office systems, Jérôme Kerviel built hidden positions worth tens of billions. For a while, he made billions. But when the truth emerged in Two Thousand Eight, it became the biggest one-man trading loss in history.

This is the story of Jérôme Kerviel — ambition, recklessness, and the failure of oversight.

October Nineteenth, Nineteen Eighty Seven. The Dow Jones plunged TWENTY-TWO percent in a single day. It was the largest one-day crash in stock market history.

Fueled by a bull market, portfolio insurance, and futures selling, the collapse spread from Asia to London to New York in hours. Panic swept trading floors, and the world braced for another Great Depression.

This is the story of Black Monday — the day computers, leverage, and fear collided to create chaos.

In Nineteen Ninety Five, Barings Bank — the OLDEST bank in Britain, founded in Seventeen Sixty Two — collapsed in spectacular fashion. Not because of a war. Not because of a global panic. But because of ONE man.

Nick Leeson, a trader in Singapore, seemed unstoppable at first. He was Barings’ golden boy. But behind the façade, he was hiding massive losses in a secret account. Every bad trade buried deeper... every mistake doubled down.

And then came the Kobe earthquake. Markets plunged. Leeson’s bets imploded. The losses ballooned to ONE POINT THREE BILLION dollars — more than twice the bank’s capital. Within days, Barings was sold for ONE POUND.

This is the incredible true story of Nick Leeson... the rogue trader who destroyed a two-hundred-year-old institution. A cautionary tale of ambition, leverage, and hubris.