Considering so many other behemoths like Lehman went down, the fall of ABN AMRO becomes perhaps less exciting one to read about. But being in Netherlands and specially being ABN AMRO customer makes me specially interested in understanding how it happened.
Jai Arjun Singh says in his post about Wolf Hall 'When we learn about history primarily through cold details set out “objectively” in textbooks, it’s possible to lose sight of the fact that the distant events we take for granted – events that now appear set in stone, almost as if they could have unfolded in no other way – were the accumulated products of the personalities, life experiences and whimsies of human beings who happened to be in a certain place at a certain time: real people with ambitions, weaknesses, dilemmas, biases and prejudices of their own.' I think the story of ABN AMRO is no exception.
This book that describes the people, their egos and the events that they led which eventually resulted in demise of the Dutch financial institution. MORE...
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