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People (1)

  • Norman Lamont Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1990 to 1993 who answered for the government after BCCI's July 1991 closure and, with the Bank of England's Governor, commissioned the Bingham inquiry.

Events (1)

  • Bingham Report Lord Justice Bingham's 1992 inquiry into British supervision of BCCI, which cleared the Treasury, criticized the Bank of England as slow and overreliant on Luxembourg, and upheld its closure of the bank.