Editing Barings Bank (section)

==In popular culture and fiction==
On 5 April 2007, ''[[The Guardian]]'' newspaper reported that [[KPMG]], the liquidators of Barings, had sold a [[trading jacket]] thought to have been worn by Nick Leeson while trading on SIMEX in Singapore. The jacket was offered for sale on [[eBay]] but it failed to reach its reserve price despite a highest bid of £16,100. It was subsequently sold for £21,000.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/apr/05/money1 | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Nick Leeson's jacket raises £21,000 | first=Graeme | last=Wearden | date=5 April 2007 | access-date=26 April 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100403235026/http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/apr/05/money1| archive-date= 3 April 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> In October 2007 a similar jacket used by Leeson's team but not thought to have been worn by Leeson himself sold at auction for £4,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.norwood.org.uk/contact-us/pr-media/newsarchive/2007/Fundraising+News/distressed_investing_dinner_2007.htm|title=Distressed investing dinner 2007|date=July 2016|access-date=10 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721185359/http://www.norwood.org.uk/contact-us/pr-media/newsarchive/2007/Fundraising+News/distressed_investing_dinner_2007.htm|archive-date=21 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Fiction===
The 1999 film ''[[Rogue Trader (film)|Rogue Trader]]'' is a fictionalized account of the bank's downfall based upon Leeson's autobiography ''[[Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World]]''.<ref>{{Citation | title = Risky business | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | date = 8 June 1999 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/1999/jun/08/comment | access-date = 23 February 2012}}</ref>

In the historical novel ''[[Stone's Fall]]'' (2009) by [[Iain Pears]], Barings and its role in the [[Baring crisis|Panic of 1890]] play a significant part in the story's structure.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/book-review-stone-s-fall-by-iain-pears-1-1037332 |title=Book review: Stone's Fall, by Iain Pears |date=7 May 2009 |work=[[The Scotsman]] |access-date=26 February 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

In the novel ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'' (1872) by [[Jules Verne]], [[Phileas Fogg]]'s bet is guaranteed by a cheque for £20,000 drawn on Barings Bank:

<blockquote>As today is Wednesday, the 2nd of October, I shall be due in London in this very room of the Reform Club, on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine p.m.; or else the twenty thousand pounds, now deposited in my name at Barings, will belong to you, in fact and in right, gentlemen. Here is a cheque for the amount.<ref>{{Gutenberg | no=103 | name=Around the World in Eighty Days |bullet=none}}</ref></blockquote>

In the song "When you're lying awake" from the operetta ''[[Iolanthe]]'' (1882) by [[Gilbert and Sullivan]], Barings is mentioned towards the end (as Baring, together with Rothschild).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/iolanthe/web_op/iol20.html|title=When You're Lying Awake (lyrics)|publisher=Boise State University|access-date=3 December 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007001831/http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/iolanthe/web_op/iol20.html|archive-date=7 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>