The Rise Of Merchant Banking

Author : Stanley Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135032456

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This is the first serious history of merchant banking, based on the archives of the leading houses and the records of their activities throughout the world. It combines scholarly insight with readability, and offers a totally new assessment of the origins of one of the most dynamic sectors of the City of London money market, of the British economy as a whole and of a major aspect of the growth of international business. Dr Chapman has researched new material from the archives of Rothschilds, Barings, Kleinwort Benson and other leading houses together with a wide range of archives and published work in Europe, America and South Africa to trace the roots of British enterprise in financing international trade, exporting capital, floating companies, arbitrage, and other activities of the merchant banks. While mindful of the subtleties of international financial connections, this book assumes no previous acquaintance with the jargon of banking, economics and sociology. It will therefore prove equally interesting to students of history, business and finance, and offers a 'good read' to anyone interested in the City of London and the international economy.

Author : Stanley D. Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Merchant banks
ISBN : 0415378508

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The Rise of Merchant Banking by Stanley D. Chapman Pdf

Author : Brian O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319966984

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From Crisis to Crisis by Brian O'Sullivan Pdf

From Crisis to Crisis examines the impact of the harsh conditions of the interwar economy on the British merchant banks. The financial crises of 1914 and 1931 are assessed using primary sources. The competitive threats, including the rise of New York as a rival financial centre, are considered. It challenges alleged special treatment and provides fresh perspectives on the interwar rationalisation of industry. During the late nineteenth century, Britain’s merchant banks had become pre-eminent in a world of fixed exchange rates, free trade and the unfettered mobility of international capital. This world was increasingly challenged in the interwar period, being replaced by floating exchange rates, trade protectionism and restrictions on capital movements. This book fills a gap in the historiography of British banking by recovering the histories of long-forgotten merchant banks rather than focusing on the better-known firms. Using a wide range of archival resources, it traces the strategic transformation by some merchant banks from higher-risk, capital intensive activities to lower-risk, advisory services. Brian O’Sullivan has been jointly awarded the 2019 BAC Wadsworth Prize for From Crisis to Crisis: The Transformation of Merchant Banking 1914-1939. It was judged by the Business Archives Council (BAC) to have made an outstanding contribution to the study of British business history. Brian shared the prize with Professor Priya Satia of Stanford University in California.

Author : Joseph Wechsberg
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Merchant Bankers by Joseph Wechsberg Pdf

“This is a collection of casual articles about the seemingly forbidding subject of merchant banking and about some of the world’s most outstanding and venerable merchant bankers — Hambros, Barings, Warburg, in London; Mattioli in Milan; Abs in Frankfurt; Lehman Brothers in New York; and the Rothschilds in Paris and London... Joseph Wechsberg gives the history of each of these institutions, most of which remain family controlled, and he presents profiles of the men who are or have been their guiding lights, whose very character serves to distinguish each of these mysterious citadels from the other and from lesser breeds in the more understandable area of commercial banking. The most remarkable feature of this truly fascinating book is the amount of knowledge the author brings to bear upon his subject in a most unobtrusive way. The articles are rich in information and a pleasure to read.” — Kirkus “Mr. Wechsberg... has selected the names of seven merchant banks and bankers and written the story of each with a sparkling lucidity that is reminiscent of New Yorker Profiles... Mr. Wechsberg’s sketches of men and institutions make good reading.” — Saturday Review “New Yorker Correspondent Joseph Wechsberg[’s]... stories have a richness of color and some details of remarkable deals that have turned money into factories, jobs and useful products for everybody’s compound interest.” — Time Magazine

Author : Erik Banks
Publisher : Kogan Page
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024869476

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The Rise and Fall of the Merchant Banks by Erik Banks Pdf

"This book examines the ascendancy and decline of the British merchant banking industry over the last 200 years. It illustrates the central role these institutions played in the growth and development of the global and domestic economy and assesses their prospects and influence in a continuously changing environment." "The origins, ascendancy, triumphs, contributions, failures and decline of these institutions are analysed with reference to the external forces which shape them, from the dawn of merchant banking in the 18th century, to the peak years of dominance in the 19th century, and into the challenging War and post-War years when power and influence were lost to European universal banks and US global financial conglomerates."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Manuel Llorca-Ja?a
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351543934

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The Globalization of Merchant Banking before 1850 by Manuel Llorca-Ja?a Pdf

London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the Anglo-American war of 1812. Though the majority of merchant bankers remained cautious in their affairs, Huth & Co established an impressive global network of trade and lending, dealing with over 6,000 correspondents in more than seventy countries. Based on archival research, this comparative study provides a new chronology of early nineteenth-century commercial and financial expansion.Huth & Co. were truly market-makers and key intermediaries of commodities and capital flows in the international economy. This is an important example of a firm shaping globalisation well before the transport and communication revolution of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. But rather than a case study, this is a comparative study concerned with the commercial and financial activities of the leading merchant-bankers of the periodThis book will be of great interest to business and economic historians interested in the nature of the early decades of the first globalization.

Author : Manuel Llorca-Jaäna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 135154392X

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The Globalization of Merchant Banking Before 1850 by Manuel Llorca-Jaäna Pdf

Author : Hugo Armstrong,Dick Gross
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Bank failures
ISBN : 0522846580

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Tricontinental by Hugo Armstrong,Dick Gross Pdf

Tricontinental is an absorbing and readable account explaining a slice of financial history, the repercussions of which continue to top the nation's agenda. As a cautionary tale, it goes to the heart of vital questions about the extent and methods of responsible supervision of the financial system that shapes our economy.

Author : Richard Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349096503

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Schroders by Richard Roberts Pdf

J.Henry Schroder Wagg & Co has been a leading merchant bank of the City of London for more than a century. This book tells its history, from its founding in 1818 by John Henry Schroder, a Hamburg merchant, through difficult times in the international slump of the early 1930s, to its rise to one of the largest and most prestigious of city firms in London today.

Author : L. H. L. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Acceptances
ISBN : UOM:35128001452711

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Clay and Wheble's Modern Merchant Banking by L. H. L. Cohen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1192863623

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MODERN MERCHANT BANKING by Anonim Pdf

Author : Even Lange,Ulf Olsson,Iain L. Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351952934

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Centres and Peripheries in Banking by Even Lange,Ulf Olsson,Iain L. Fraser Pdf

This volume presents a broad investigation into the relationship between the centre and the periphery in banking. Focusing on the historical development of financial markets, from their emergence in the early modern period to today's global financial and capital markets, the chapters investigate how local, national and international relationships have affected and helped shape the banking industry over three-hundred years. This wide-ranging discussion in time and place is provided by a group of international experts, encompassing bankers, economists, economic historians and historians, and will be of interest to all those with a scholarly or professional interest in the development of financial institutions.

Author : Youssef Cassis,Philip Cottrell,Iain L. Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351880305

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The World of Private Banking by Youssef Cassis,Philip Cottrell,Iain L. Fraser Pdf

This is a full and authoritative 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. These banks were usually partnerships, a form of organization which persisted as the role of private banking changed in response to the political and economic transformations of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was in this period, and the succeeding Golden Age of private banking from 1815 to the 1870s, that many of the great names this book treats rose to fame: Baring, Rothschild, Mallet and Hottinger became synonymous with wealth and economic power, as German, French and the remarkably long-lasting Geneva banks flourished and expanded. The last parts of this study detail the way in which private banking adapted to the age of the corporate economy from the 1870s to the 1930s, the decline during and after the Great Depression and the post-war renaissance. It concludes with an appraisal of the causes and consequences of the modern expansion of private banking: no longer the exclusive preserve of partnerships, the management of investment portfolios of wealthy individuals and institutions is now a major concern of international joint-stock banks.

Author : Geoffrey Jones
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0714634441

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Banks and Money by Geoffrey Jones Pdf

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John Crosby Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1009202865

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A Hundred Years of Merchant Banking by John Crosby Brown Pdf