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Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings (1996 Video)

aka: £830,000,000: Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings

Producer

Adam Curtis

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tells how Nick Leeson and the executives of Barings, the oldest bank in Britain, lost £830 million. For over two years Leeson, working in Singapore, deceived everyone around him into believing he was a star...

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Barclays Bank profits - Chairman reassures customers (1995)

Genre

Interview

Interview with the Chairman of Barclays Bank, Andrew Buxton, following the company’s announcement of half-year pre-tax profits up 9 percent to 1.25 billion pounds. Buxton is adamant the public will always...

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Barclays Bank announce profits (1995)

Genre

Interview; News report

Richard Jordan reports on the massive increase in profits announced by Barclay’s Bank. Rob MacGregor, Assistant Secretary of bankers union BIFU comments on the profits, and the lower than inflation payrise...

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Barclays bank profits down (1992)

Genre

Interview

IRN financial editor Robin Amlot interviews Barclays bank chairman John Quinton about the report of profits of 51 million pounds – down from 378 million, and on the future for the economy. These are the...

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Nat West chief executive after rise in profits (1992)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Derek Wanless, chief executive of Nat West bank, following the announcement of yearly profits of 211 million pounds, up from 101 million, despite the economic recession. Looks to the future of...

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Douglas Hurd on agreememtn with Swiss over drug dealing profits (1989)

Genre

Interview

Home Secretary Douglas Hurd on an agreement with the Swiss to ensure illicit profits from drug trafficking can be easily confiscated from Swiss bank accounts. Male interviewer not identified. For Update...

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Accounting for the Environment (1994 Video)

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 23 min., 1997 sale: £120.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Professor Rob Gray, author of ‘The Greening of Accountancy’, explains different approaches to ‘green’ accounting. Some firms, for example take environmental costs from profits. A more pro-active...

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LBC reports the Budget special (1981)

Genre

Discussion; News report; Speech

Live coverage of Chancellor Geoffrey Howe’s third Budget speech (with commentary-male reporter not identified), which continues policies to reduce the deficit, by controlling public spending and increasing...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Cartoons Make a Mint (2003)

Subject

Economics; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 56 minutes), $9.99

Five of John Sutherland’s classic Technicolor economic/industrial information films in one compilation. The films are from the series FUN AND FACTS ABOUT AMERICAN BUSINESS, which were 9 animations made "to...

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