Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance
About the Book Series
Current interest in the history of money and banking remains strong and it is opportune to survey developments both in the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. This set provides historical analysis which incorporates research from the early twentieth century onwards in a form that is both accessible to students of money & banking and economists, economic historians and bankers
This set re-issues 38 volumes originally published between 1900 and 2000. It charts the history of early banking, discusses banking in the UK, Europe,Japan and the USA, analyses banks as multinationals, the UK mortgage market, banking policy and structure and examines specific sectors such as gilts and gold.
Banks as Multinationals (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Jones
March 07, 2014
This comparative, international study looks at origins and business strategies of multinational banks. A distinguished team of bankers and academics from the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia survey the evolution of multinational banks over time and suggest a conceptual framework in which ...
Building Society Industry (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Mark Boleat
March 07, 2014
In this book which has become the standard work on building societies, the author takes into account both economic and regulatory changes which took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The book is aimed primarily at students in the industry, and also those undertaking relevant undergraduate ...
Colonial and Foreign Banking Systems (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
By Keith Le Cheminant
March 07, 2014
This volume examines various banking systems from around the world as well as the mechanisms of international and central banking. Although inevitably a reflection of the banking landscape at the time it was originally published, the book nonetheless represents a valuable tool in providing ...
Contagion of Bank Failures (RLE Banking & Finance): The Relation to Deposit Insurance and Information
1st Edition
By Sangkyun Park
March 07, 2014
This volume examines the vulnerability of sound banks during financial crises helps understand the nature of financial crises and other banking issues traces the history of banking reform in the United States from 1933 until 1992 discusses deregulation in the US banking system...
Debtors to their Profession (RLE Banking & Finance): A History of the Institute of Bankers 1879-1979
1st Edition
By Edwin Green
March 07, 2014
This volume examines the first hundred years of the Institute of Banking’s development within the banking business as a whole, with a particular emphasis upon changes in the staffing requirements of the banks and the importance of professional qualifications in the careers of their employees. The ...
Directory of Islamic Financial Institutions (RLE: Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
Edited
By John Presley
March 07, 2014
When originally published this was the first reference book to address itself to Islamic banking and finance and it offers comprehensive information on all major institutions which have commercial or banking interests in this field. It includes analysis of the principles behind interest-free ...
Domestic and Multinational Banking (RLE Banking & Finance): The Effects of Monetary Policy
1st Edition
By Rae Weston
March 07, 2014
This book examines the fundamental nature of banking in the economy of the 1970s and 80s, arguing that banking cannot be properly understood unless it is regarded as the retailing of financial services. In analysing the nature of banking the book demonstrates how banking might operate without ...
Eight European Central Banks (RLE Banking & Finance): Organization and Activities
1st Edition
By Various
March 07, 2014
Uniquely written from inside the banking world this book gives a comprehensive account of the organization and activities of the major central European banks during the 1980s. Each of the individually authored chapters has been written to a common pattern in order to facilitate reference and ...
Emerging Risk in International Banking (RLE Banking & Finance): Origins of Financial Vulnerability in the 1980s
1st Edition
By P. N. Snowden
March 07, 2014
Global payments imbalances and the rise of emerging economies provide the background to this analysis of risk exposure and near-insolvency at the world’s major banks. Emerging Risk was published in 1985, three years after the first international banking crisis of the post-War era, but prior to ...
Foreign Exchange Issues, Capital Markets and International Banking in the 1990s (RLE Banking & Finance)
1st Edition
Edited
By Khosrow Fatemi, Dominick Salvatore
March 07, 2014
The need for continued analysis and evaluation of the international financial system is as pressing now as it was when this book was originally published. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of certain aspects of the international financial system. Specifically it addresses four of the most ...
Innovations in Banking (RLE:Banking & Finance): Business Strategies and Employee Relations
1st Edition
By Tim Morris
March 07, 2014
Banking and finance is one of the most successful and rapidly expanding sectors in the world economy. From the 1960s this whole area of employment has undergone profound changes. The banks diversified, adopted new corporate strategies, introduced new technologies and faced new and intense ...
Investment Banking in England 1856-1881 (RLE Banking & Finance): Volume One
1st Edition
By Phillip Cottrell
March 07, 2014
This and the following volume chart the history of financial institutions in England in the mid-late nineteenth century as well as examining the periods of boom and bust, their causes and effects. Using hitherto unpublished sources from the International Financial Society this book provides an ...