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Crash Bang Wallop

Crash Bang Wallop


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• The Inside Story Of ‘Big Bang’, The Financial Revolution That Changed Everything – not just the City and the financial world but money itself, its sheer power, and the way we all use it.
• Published on the 30th anniversary of ‘Big Bang’, the moment in 1986 when a switch was flicked in the City of London. All the rules changed, computerization disrupted everything and London became an experiment for a new type of global finance
• Iain Martin is a prizewinning author of Making it Happen (9k hbs TCM), the acclaimed investigation of RBS, and is a leading journalist. He is the perfect author to tell this dramatic story, combining incredible access and expertise with unrivalled storytelling flair.
• Perfect for fans of Michael Lewis’s number one bestseller The Big Short, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s international bestseller Too Big To Fail and Liaquat Ahamed’s prizewinning Lords of Finance
• Revelatory new material that will make this a timely, relevant book for anyone with an interest in how money, the City and global finance work
• By speaking to many of the main participants and mining the historical archive, he tells the story in three parts: the history of the City, the technicolour excitement of the 1980s, and the aftermath involving scandal and the City soaring to new heights.
• In an afterword titled The Future of Money Martin looks ahead to the next revolution in global finance.
• Based on extensive interviews with the main participants and deep archival research.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash, Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world. Perhaps more than anything, Big Bang revolutionized the international markets, as the capital became a testing ground for financial globalization, with huge repercussions for the global economy. The definitive insider's account of this critically important moment in modern history, Crash, Bang Wallop will also explore what's next for global finance as it gets ready to undergo yet another revolution.

About the Author

Iain Martin has been editor of the Scotsman and of Scotland on Sunday, Deputy Editor of the Daily Telegraph, Deputy Editor of the European edition of the Wall Street Journal and a columnist at the Daily Mail. For BBC Radio 4 he has presented editions of What the Papers Say, Beyond Westminster and appeared on Any Questions. His first book, Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS, and the Men who Blew Up the British Economy, was shortlisted for the 2013 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and won the Debut Book of the Year prize at the 2014 Political Book Awards.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781473625075
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 165 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Width: 235 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1473625076
  • Publisher Date: 08 Sep 2016
  • Depth: 22
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 512 gr


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