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Description:From the back cover:"When a single ‘rogue trader’ brought down Barings, Britain’s oldest merchant bank, it was two Financial Times journalists who discovered crucial details about Nick Leeson’s secret account and the rescue talks with the Sultan of Brunei. In this book they tell the full story.Even in the 1980s, the cosy patrician clique at Baring Brothers could not control Baring Securities, where young and thrusting children of the Thatcher revolution were storming into new markets and generating unprecedented profits. Communications and lines of accountability eventually became so confused that directors earning huge bonuses blindly transferred £700 million into Leeson’s black hole. This vivid narrative cuts through the strange jargon of straddles and strangles, ‘rocket scientists’ and ‘gamma geeks’, to uncover vicious power struggles, towering egos and monumental incompetence."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings. To get started finding All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 364

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: 1997

ISBN: 0140261230

Description: From the back cover:"When a single ‘rogue trader’ brought down Barings, Britain’s oldest merchant bank, it was two Financial Times journalists who discovered crucial details about Nick Leeson’s secret account and the rescue talks with the Sultan of Brunei. In this book they tell the full story.Even in the 1980s, the cosy patrician clique at Baring Brothers could not control Baring Securities, where young and thrusting children of the Thatcher revolution were storming into new markets and generating unprecedented profits. Communications and lines of accountability eventually became so confused that directors earning huge bonuses blindly transferred £700 million into Leeson’s black hole. This vivid narrative cuts through the strange jargon of straddles and strangles, ‘rocket scientists’ and ‘gamma geeks’, to uncover vicious power struggles, towering egos and monumental incompetence."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings. To get started finding All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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