BARINGS MAY BE HEADED FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS

摘要

When ING Group, the Dutch banking and insurance behemoth, bought London's Barings investment bank five years ago for one British pound, it thought it was getting a great deal. Barings, banker to the British monarchy, including Queen Elizabeth II, had been nearly bankrupted by a rogue trader in its Singapore office named Nick Leeson. ING wanted to use Barings' extensive international network to expand its own investment -banking business.