BP and Black Monday

The 1987 stock market crash came at the worst possible time for some of the world’s biggest banks – just as they were on the hook for the largest share sale ever seen. The UK government faced an impossible dilemma: pull the deal or let banks go under.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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IFR looks back at some of the biggest – and most ground-breaking – deals in capital markets history.