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Black Horse RideThe Inside Story of Lloyds and the Banking Crisis

by Ivan Fallon

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There have been a plenty of books written on the banking crisis on both sides of the Atlantic, including books by both Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling. But none with this degree of inside information on the inner workings of a bank during a time of great crisis. Sir Victor Blank, the former chairman of Lloyds TSB, has never spoken publicly about his bank's doomed takeover of high-street rival HBOS - until now.

The son of a Jewish tailor in Manchester, Blank rose to the highest echelons of the banking world to become chairman of staid and solid Lloyds TSB in 2006, then Britain's fifth largest bank. At the time, it was thought Lloyds' takeover would bring the aggressively-run HBOS back from the brink while pleasing the prime minister and raising Blank's reputation in the City. What could possibly go wrong?

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Format: Paperback
Published: 2016
Pages: 448
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
ISBN: 9781785900235

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