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Question 1: what would have your reaction be?
My reaction to this act of withdrawing the application to the SFA is unsatisfactory on the part of Baring. What Baring should have done was to have sacked Leeson or at least taken a strong disciplinary action against him. On the other hand what Baring did was to avoid taking disciplinary action against Leeson. From the perspective of deontological ethics it was the duty of Baring to take disciplinary action against Leeson, but it failed to perform its duty.
In reality what happened was that Leeson had performed well in Jakarta and had saved Baring about $100 million. He was perceived as a star performer and the Bank did not want to take any action against him.
Question 2: what does that mean?
This means that instead of taking punitive action against Leeson, Baring decided to post him in Barings Futures Singapore. This was an inappropriate action because a person whose integrity has been questioned by the SFA ...

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