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Risking It All

Documentary series telling the inside story of the banking industry. Charting the thirty-year effort to manage financial risk through mathematical modelling.

With gripping first-hand accounts from banking insiders, regulators and politicians this film tells the story of two recent multi-billion pound trading disasters that rocked the City. It shows that some bankers are still taking reckless risks, five years after the crash that brought the world's economy to its knees. Risk is the engine of growth but reckless risk can have catastrophic consequences, especially in volatile times like the turbulent financial world of today. The film charts the thirty-year effort to manage financial risk through mathematical modelling and shows how this can encourage some traders to behave as if they have mastered risk altogether. With Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, former JP Morgan executive Bill Winters and regulator Martin Wheatley.

50 minutes

Last on

Sun 17 Nov 201320:10GMT

Credits

RoleContributor
NarratorAlex Jennings
DirectorTristan Quinn
ProducerTristan Quinn
Series ProducerRuth Shurman

Broadcasts

  • Sat 16 Nov 201301:10GMT
  • Sat 16 Nov 201315:10GMT
  • Sun 17 Nov 201309:10GMT
  • Sun 17 Nov 201320:10GMT

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