The Barings bank was a British Investmentbank.

Their roots were appropriate for created commercial transaction in one 1717 of John Baring in Exeter. Its sons moved 1762 to London and created there the enterprise John & Francis Baring & CO. Barings became in 19. Century beside Rothschild to the prominent Londoner bank. 1803 financed the enterprise for example the purchase of Louis IANA by the USA.

Risky and bad interest and currency speculations of the security dealer nod Leeson in Asia led on 26 February 1995 to a loss of 1.4 billion US Dollar and thus to the bankruptcy of the Barings PLC. The Netherlands ING Group acquired since that time thereupon the enterprise and parts of its Investmentbank business under the mark ING Barings leads.

The theory from the case of the Barings bank

The case of the Barings bank serves therefore until today as dedactic example a bad sequence organisation, there here unsatisfactory co-operation between Frontoffice, completion (backoffice) and Finanzrisikocontrolling the economic collapse of this bank favoured. With reference in this also case discussed broadly in the public became also in enterprises, which are active in the range of derivativer financial instruments, but not among the financial establishment ions to rank, a strict separation between Frontoffice and Backoffice furnished and for the late 1990er years also increasingly a Finanzrisikocontrolling establishes.

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