Business Failure
The first and perhaps the most obvious cause for business failure is fraud. Indeed, fraud is quintessential to business failure, mainly because it takes different forms and appearances, from intentional bad management to accounting frauds that lead to legal issues.
The most important example of how fraud brought down a bank that had been financing many important operations for the last three hundred of years is the Barings Bank. Unfortunately, Barings was also a perfect example of how one single employee can actually bankrupt a company.
Indeed, Nick Leeson began his activities with Barings after a short period spent with Morgan Stanley and he was soon sent to Singapore to clear the back office mess and futures trading that was on the way there. Initially operating only as general manager, Leeson soon began to trade on the Singapore Exchange (the SIMEX), especially in financial derivates, such as...
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