Inside the Banking Crisis

The Untold Story

Hugh Pym (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2016 | 2nd edition
Bloomsbury Information (Verlag)
978-1-4729-2858-0 (ISBN)

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One of the gravest challenges faced by any British government in peacetime was also one of the most surprising and shocking to come to light. When the banking system came close to collapse, nobody going about their business in October 2008 had any inkling of how vulnerable the nation’s financial infrastructure was. Nobody, bar a small group of policymakers and ministers working frantically in Whitehall and the City of London.

Royal Bank of Scotland, larger than the entire annual output of the UK economy, had toppled. Banking giant Halifax/Bank of Scotland was in desperate need of a bailout. A staggeringly large bill had to be paid to stave off disaster, but could Britain afford it? Yet doing nothing might have seen cash machines closed, depositors panicking and troops on the streets. As political leaders in the United States confronted challenges to their own system, their British counterparts could rely on nobody for help. A solution had to be found and fast.

This book is the definitive insider’s guide to the UK banking crisis, the drama and the characters involved in the collapse of some of the major pillars of British banking, and the commitment of £66 billion of taxpayers’ money. Newly updated to include commentary on post-crash reviews and the government’s share sales, Inside the Banking Crisis is informed by conversations with highly-placed policymakers, including many of the key players from that time, and explains what really happened behind closed doors in Downing Street and the City of London.

Hugh Pym is Chief Economics Correspondent for BBC News and one of only a handful of broadcast correspondents to have covered the financial crisis from its origins in 2007 to the present. He is author of What Happened? And Other Questions Everyone is Asking About The Credit Crunch and Gordon Brown: The First Year in Power(Bloomsbury) @BBCHughPym

Introduction
1. The Rock crumbles
2. The Rock rescue
3. Banks on the brink
4. The financial storm breaks
5. Britain on the brink
6. Britain stands alone
7. Battle for banking survival
8. Banks struggle to rebuild
Timeline

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	328 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Bankbetriebslehre
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Bankwirtschaft • Finanzkrise; Berichte/Erinnerungen
ISBN-10	1-4729-2858-X / 147292858X
ISBN-13	978-1-4729-2858-0 / 9781472928580
Zustand	Neuware