Commercial Banks and Industrial Finance in England and Wales 1860 1913 or Creating Value in Financial Services Strategies Operations and Technologies

Commercial Banks and Industrial Finance in England and Wales, 1860-1913

Author: Michael Collins

Before 1914, the City of London was the premier international financial centre. However, following the disruption of the world markets caused by World War I and the Great Depression of the 1930s, other industrial nations quickly and effectively challenged Britain's influence. Critics of the banks claim that, even before 1914, there were serious deficiencies in the financial provision provided by banks to the domestic industrial sector, and that these deficiencies handicapped Britain's competitive advantage in world markets, leading to the decline of their influence and power. This book examines these claims, and bringing to bear important new data that presents the debate in a novel and revealing framework, expounds an economic rationale for historical bank behaviour.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Note to Reader on Monetary Values
1	The Relationship Between Finance and Industry in Britain	1
2	Comparative European Banking Developments	24
3	Relationship Banking and Transaction Banking: Conceptual Issues	47
4	Trends in Commercial Bank Liabilities and Assets, 1860-1913	57
5	The Impact of Financial Crises on Commercial Bank Behaviour	82
6	Bank Mergers and the Impact on Asset Structures, 1860-1913	107
7	Contemporary Opinion on Bank Lending	134
8	Professionalization, Organization, and Control	150
9	The Nature of Commercial Banks' Industrial Loans	178
10	Loan Refusals	202
11	Business Clients' Financial Distress	221
12	Conclusion	250
	Appendices	259
	References	272
	Company Index	290
	Name Index	292
	Subject Index	294

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Author: Edward L L Melnick

Creating Value in Financial Services is a compilation of state-of-the-art views of leading academics and practitioners on how financial service firms can succeed in today's competitive environment. The book is based on two conferences held at New York University: the first, 'Creating Value in Financial Services', held in March 1997, and the second, 'Operations and Productivity in Financial Services', in April 1998. The book is essentially designed to be a compendium of leading edge thinking and practice in the management of financial services firms. There is no book today that has this focus. It contains ideas that can apply to other service industries. Topics addressed are increasingly important worldwide as the financial services industries consolidate and search for innovative new directions and ways to create value in a fiercely competitive environment.