Books in the Studies in Banking and Financial History series

In order to place European financial union into context, it is necessary to understand the banking history of each country, as this is inextricably linked with economic development. The papers that make up this text explore a variety of areas of European banking history.

Explores the indissoluble link that had developed between the papacy and bankers, illuminating how the Apostolic Chamber, increasingly in need of money, could not meet its debts, without farming out the rights to future income. This title looks at the web of financial connections that bound together Florentine and Genoese bankers with the papacy.

Presents an investigation into the relationship between the centre and the periphery in banking. This book focuses on the historical development of financial markets, and investigates how local, national and international relationships have affected and helped shape the banking industry over the years.

Focuses on a set of historical developments and problems typified by the history of the Osterreichische Creditanstalt and its successor organizations, and opens the way to compare and contrast experiences throughout Central and Western Europe and also on other continents.

Offers an account of the history of private banking, beginning with its development in conjunction with the world markets served by and centred on a few European cities, notably Amsterdam and London. This study also details the way in which private banking adapted to the age of the corporate economy from the 1870s to the 1930s.

The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of financial regulation on the Spanish banking system performance from the end of the Civil War (April 1939) to the mid-1970s.

The Mercantile Bank of India was one of a small band of British-managed banks which dominated Anglo-Eastern finance for most of the 20th century. This work uses the archives of the bank, together with memoirs of former officials and their families, to offer a history of the bank.

This study charts the first 40 years of the Chartered Mercantile Bank, one of the pioneering banks of the Far East. The book introduces personalities, and describes the volatile nature of banking in this part of the world.

Consolidation and concentration trends in banking was the theme of the Academic Archive Colloquium of the European Association for Banking History held in Madrid, June 1997. This volume comprises 18 papers and responses presented at the colloquium.

Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth Century Banking explores the behaviour of banks at times of war, revolution, civil war, social turmoil, and reconstruction.

The 20th century witnessed the rise of modern central banking and, at its close, the first steps in the decline of the role of some of the most famous of these institutions. In this volume, contributors examine the process whereby central banks emerged and asserted themselves.

This collection of essays celebrates the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the National Bank of Hungary in 1994. From a range of points of view, each contribution considers the monetary and financial history of the past century.

These papers were originally given at a conference organized by the Society for European Business History. They reflect the degree of interest and even urgency in the investigation of the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1930s and 1940s.

This collection of essays, written by former bankers, practising central bankers, government advisers and historians, celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the National Bank of Hungary.

Bringing together cultural, economic and social historians from across Europe and beyond, this volume offers a consideration from a number of perspectives of the principal forces that further integrated the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe during the first century of industrialisation.