The Decline Of The Midland Bank

Record ID: 123390
  • Title: The Decline Of The Midland Bank
  • Date: 22nd August 1991
  • Summary: PROGRAMME BILLING Over the last 10 years, the Midland, the poorest of the UK's big four clearing banks, has stumbled from one crisis to another losing hundreds of million pounds on the way. It's new management team, drafted in by the Bank of England, face the toughest challenge in the city - preserving Midland as an independent bank in Britain's high streets. John plender of the Financial Times, tells the story of ambition, bad luck and serious misjudgement which has led to the listening bank's disastrous decline from the biggest bank in the world to one struggling to make any profits at all.
  • Description:BUSINESS DOCUMENTARY TRACING THE CATASTROPHIC LENDING AND INVESTMENT POLICIES OF THE MIDLAND BANK AND OUTLINING ITS CURRENT WEAKNESS AND VULNERABILITY TO TAKEOVER
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:BOX PRODUCTIONS LTD
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:22/08/1991
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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