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Title: Hubris : The Rise and Fall of the Bank of Scotland
Publisher: Birlinn, Limited
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN 10: 1780270518
ISBN 13: 9781780270517
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 1.252 pounds

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In 1995 Bank of Scotland celebrated 300 years as Britain's oldest commercial bank. Voted 'most admired bank', respected by competitors, applauded by investors and trusted by customers, it looked forward to the next three hundred. Less than 15 years later it was bust, reviled as part of the spectacular collapse of HBOS, the conglomerate it had joined. One of the high-profile victims of the credit crunch, its spectacular fall caused seismic shock waves throughout the financial world. What went wrong? Ray Perman, who has followed the Bank since the 1970s when he was a Financial Times journalist, uncovered the story from documents and dozens of interviews with people at the top in Bank of Scotland and HBOS - from being the bank of choice for the highrolling Monte Carlo mega-rich to losing GBP10 billion. It is a cautionary tale for our times. In the complex world of modern global finance, the brilliant men who ran the company ignored the simple banking rules that their predecessors learned the hard way three centuries before.

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Ray Perman was a journalist for 30 years in London and Scotland. In 1977 he first visited Canna and met John Lorne Campbell, with whom he corresponded until John's death in 1996.

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