Barings Bank
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- a global investment bank (= bank that deals with large businesses) that was formed in London in 1762. It stopped trading in 1995 after an employee, Nick Leeson, lost over £250 million while trading in an illegal way in Singapore. The bank was bought by a Dutch company, ING, and began trading again. Leeson was sent to prison in Singapore in 1995 and was released in 1999.
巴林银行（Barings Bank）：一家全球投资银行于1762年在伦敦成立。1995年，一名雇员尼克·李森（Nick Leeson）在新加坡以非法方式进行交易时损失了超过2.5亿英镑，之后该公司停止了交易。该银行被荷兰公司ING收购，并再次开始交易。Leeson于1995年被送入新加坡监狱，并于1999年获释。