The ‘Arrested Bankers’ Club: Ex-Brokers Return With a Mission

  • Finance exiles Leeson, Wilkinson take on conference circuit
  • Inside experience helps prevent and spot wrongdoing, they say
Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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Nick Leeson and Danny Wilkinson know what it’s like to be tried for financial crimes. Now, they want to save other bankers from the experience.

The pair hit it off when they met at a plush hotel in central London a few weeks ago. They were there for a compliance conference on how to stop the kinds of wrongdoing that Wilkinson was acquitted of, and Leeson was jailed for.