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SUMMARY:How Big Bang ruined the City.   Did 1980s reforms cause the 2008 f
 inancial crisis and all that followed? - Martin Vander Weyer\, The Spectat
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:Martin Vander Weyer was a City practitioner at the time of Big
  Bang in 1986 as a director of BZW\, the investment banking arm of Barclay
 s that was a flagship of the revolution in ownership and trading rules.  S
 ince 1992 he has been a financial commentator with a particular interest i
 n City history.  He will review the rationale and impact of Big Bang\, not
  so much in terms of continued concentration of financial activity in Lond
 on as in terms of other consequences\, intended or otherwise.  What did Bi
 g Bang do to risk behaviour\, ethical standards and client relationships? 
  Was ‘Wimbledonisation’ of the City (in which British players rarely w
 in trophies) an altogether bad thing?  Did these changes fertilise the mar
 ket excesses that preceded 2008?  Or was Big Bang an overdue correction of
  what went before\, essential to maintaining London’s global pre-eminenc
 e in finance? 
LOCATION:John Bradfield Room\, Darwin College and Zoom
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