Hi, my name's Ian Fraser and I'm the author of the Arcadia science fiction series: EDEN'S GATE and TRINARY CODE, the suspense thriller BLOOD ROAD, and the air crash investigation technothriller THE TIN KICKER.
I was born and raised in Kent, South East England, and spent much of my adult life around London and the home counties before moving to Scotland in 2014.
In the past, I've driven a tractor and picked cabbages on a farm (and got a tractor to do a wheelie), worked in various printers' where I played chicken with forklift trucks (don't try this at home - forklifts don't bend but people do), pretended to be a 'people person' at an airport and made spectacles badly in an opticians. Amongst other things.
I am a tea and bacon enthusiast and a keen goat lover (in the platonic, non-biblical sense).
I now live in rural Aberdeenshire with my partner, Judy, an itinerant pigeon and the mouse that lives under my shed.
I am 24-years-old and an inveterate liar.
For a few brief months in 2007 and 2009, the Royal Bank of Scotland was the largest bank in the world. Then the Edinburgh-based giant - having rapidly grown its footprint to 55 countries and stretched its assets to £2.4 trillion under its hubristic and delinquent former boss Fred Goodwin - crashed to earth.
In Shredded, Ian Fraser explores the series of cataclysmic misjudgments, the toxic internal culture and the 'light touch' regulatory regime that gave rise to RBS/NatWest's near-collapse. He also considers why it became the most expensive bank in the world to bail out and why a culture of impunity was allowed to develop in the banking sector.
This new edition brings the story up to date, chronicling the string of scandals that have come to light since taxpayers rescued RBS and concluding with an evaluation of the attempts of the bank's post-crisis chief executives, Stephen Hester and Ross McEwan, to dismantle Goodwin's disastrous legacy and restore the damaged institutions to health.
'A gripping account - RBS was a rogue business, operating in what had become a rogue industry, with the connivance of government. Read it and weep' – Martin Woolf, Financial Times
Título : Shredded
EAN : 9780857906236
Editorial : Birlinn
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