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One attribute, financial conservatism , is simple enough (speculation can bring in quick profits, but it seldom promotes longevity as Barings bank can attest).
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By the mid-1990s, after the bankrupt Barings bank deserted its bondholders, he declared that the City could no longer claim the moral high ground.
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As a matter of fact, whether you analyse the cases of Enron, the old Barings Bank, Lehman or the Royal Bank of Scotland, similar conclusions would be drawn.
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ING, for example, is an eclectic blend of the Netherlands' biggest insurer, a postal bank, a swashbuckling commercial bank and Barings, an investment bank.
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And both he and Barings, the bank that he bankrupted, really were lost.
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ING, the Dutch bank-and-insurance group which in 1995 snapped up Barings, an investment bank with a big asset-management arm, after the British firm went bust.
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Many will see this as proof, if any were needed after the fall of Barings, a British merchant bank, that derivatives are things in which banks should not dabble.
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Before that, he was an executive director at Barings, the venerable British investment bank that collapsed in 1995 after a rogue-trader scandal, and at the International Monetary Fund.
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