num_pages: 288
description: In 1995 the Baring Brothers collapsed over a weekend brought down by the 'rogue trader' Nick Leeson. Utilizing British and American archives this work charts Baring Brothers development from wool merchants to one of the most powerful global financial institutions. It also analyses the errors which led to its downfall.
language: None
title: Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance
publisher: Pickering & Chatto Publishers