Barings bankruptcy and financial derivatives / Peter G. Zhang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Peter G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derivative securities.

Merchant banks--Great Britain.

Merchant banks.

Barings Bank.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first systematic source which tries to explain how and why the 233-year old and the World's oldest merchant bank went into bankruptcy in a few days. It includes three parts with 10 chapters. Part I first describes what happened, then traces back the birth and historical glory of the Barings bank and family, and finally describes how it was sold to the Internationale Nederlanden Groep (ING). As many terms of financial derivatives are used in the first part, we try to provide an easy and systematic way to clarify the related financial derivatives products in Part II. This part first

Contents:

pt. 1. The fall of the world's oldest merchant bank

pt. 2. Financial derivatives

pt. 3. General discussions and lessons from the crisis.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9789812830784

9812830782