Overview

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. Some of the themes explored include: the significance of mergers for bank archives; the regulation of mergers and their impact on banking legislation; reactions to consolidation from within and without the banking industry; case studies of particular mergers and their impact on the wider banking community.

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Author:   Manfred Pohl ,  Teresa Tortella ,  Herman van der Wee ,  Ms. Gabriella Massiglia
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780754602637

ISBN 10:   075460263
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   28 July 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: History and archives of consolidation in European banking: general trends and some case studies: Introduction: A century of consolidation in European banking - general trends, Youssef Cassis; Bank mergers and consolidation in Spanish history, Gabriel Tortella; Spanish banking archives and the legacy of mergers and acquisitions, Teresa Tortella; Marriage lines: the archive dimensions of bank mergers, Edwin Green; Comments, Eric Bussière; Legal aspects of bank mergers: Supervision and regulation of bank mergers: a historical survey, Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk; The banking crisis and its implications for Swiss banking legislation in the 1930s, Patrick Halbeisen; The application of European Community Regulations to consolidations of credit and other financial companies, Joaquin Lopez Madruga; Social and financial aspects of consolidation: ’Banks and Yanks’: towards a history of the restructuring of the London securities industry in the 1980s, David Kynaston; Bank mergers and their social consequences, 1920-50: the case of the Clydesdale Bank, Charles W. Munn; Banking mergers in 20th-century Scotland, Alan Cameron; Comments, Ton de Graaf; Concentration versus Deconcentration in continental banking: Responses to banking concentration in Germany 1900-33, Gerald D. Feldman; The demand for banking deconcentration in France, 1900-97: a recurrent endeavour to alleviate big banks’ hegemony, Hubert Bonin; Comments, Maurice Hamon; Mergers and European banking in Latin America: Overseas banking in Latin America: personal reflections on the 1950s and 1960s, Eric Whittle; European banks in Latin America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the cases of Brazil and Mexico, a story of diversity, Carlos Marichal and Gail D. Triner; Comments, Geoffrey Jones; Concluding remarks, Manfred Pohl, Index.

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Manfred Pohl, Teresa Tortella and Herman van der Wee Youssef Cassis, Gabriel Tortella, Teresa Tortella, Edwin Green, Eric Bussiere, Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk, Patrick Halbeisen, Joaquin Lopez Madruga, David Kynaston, Charles W. Munn, Alan Cameron, Ton de Graaf, Gerald D. Feldman, Hubert Bonin, Maurice Hamon, Eric Whittle, Carlos Marichal, Gail D. Triner, Geoffrey Jones, Manfred Pohl.

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