Bücher der Reihe Studies in Banking and Financial 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.

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.

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.

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.