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Complexity from Growth in Lines of Business: How Absent Management Occurred When Different Types of Banking Were Merged

In: Absent Management in Banking

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  • Christian Dinesen

    (Dinesen Associates Ltd.)

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The rapid growth of banks included expansion into additional lines of business. This added to the complexity of managing multiline banks. The combination of commercial deposit-taking and investment banks, with much larger combined balance sheets, enabled significantly increased trading for the banks’ own account. The mergers were often paid with shares, and many banks not already listed on stock exchanges did so in the 1980s and 1990s. Large banks with extensive geographies and new business lines made management so complex that it was sometimes absent. One example was the failure of Barings Brothers in 1995, caused by absence of management of a fraudulent trader.

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  • Christian Dinesen, 2020. "Complexity from Growth in Lines of Business: How Absent Management Occurred When Different Types of Banking Were Merged," Springer Books, in: Absent Management in Banking, chapter 0, pages 95-116, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-35824-2_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-35824-2_6
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