Barclays. The business of banking, 1690-1996
Details:
- Author(s) Ackrill, Margaret, & Leslie Hannah
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2001
- Pages 481pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for Business History, 2001. Scholarly commissioned history from distinguished academics. Deals relatively briefly with the period 1690-1945 [pp1-113] and at length with the period 1945-96 [pp114-381]. Deals with domestic operations and the international operations of Barclays (DCO) and Barclays International. In the latter period addresses the key issues and challenges faced by the established clearing banks post war and especially from 1980s. Has sections: Quaker private bankers, 1690-1896'; 'Corporate consolidation and the control of competition, 1896-1945'; 'Stability or stagnation, 1945-61?'; 'The pace quickens, 1962-73'; 'Competition restored - regulatory change, universal banking and over capacity, 1973-92'; 'Barclays abroad - the transition to global banking, 1945-92'; 'Transforming the production of banking services, 1945-92'; 'Reassessment, rearrangement and renewal, 1993-96'. Appendices include very substantial one carrying wide range of financial data [pp395-459]