Commercial Banks and Industrial Finance in England and Wales, 1860-1913
Details:
- Author(s) Collins, Michael, & Mae Baker
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2003
- Pages 296pp
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
Topics:
- Name Finance of production & trade
- Name Professions, professionalism & professionalisation
- Name Comparative international studies
Countries:
- Germany
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Scholarly work dealing with aspects of the development of British commercial / joint stock banking and the finance of British industry. Chapters include: 'Relationship between finance and industry in Britain'; 'Comparative European banking developments'; 'Relationship banking and transaction banking - conceptual issues'; 'Trends in commercial bank liabilities and assets, 1860-1913'; 'Impact of financial crises on commercial bank behaviour'; 'Bank mergers and the impact on asset structures, 1860-1913'; 'Contemporary opinion on bank lending'; 'Professionalisation, organisation and control'; 'The nature of commercial bank's industrial loans'; 'Loan refusals'; 'Business clients' financial distress'. In particular includes much on Midland Bank and Lloyds Bank and their historical constituents. Also makes comparisons with European banking, most notably Germany