The Creators and the Creation of Banking Enterprises in Europe from the 18th to the 20th Century

Athens. 2002

Editor

Kostas Kostis

When recounting their history, individual banks regularly refer to their founders and the time of their founding. As a historical issue, however, the creation and creators of banking enterprises have not yet been properly debated and investigated. This volume is breaking new ground by considering the creation of a banking enterprise as a significant object of study, and the creators of these banks as a highly meaningful group of businessmen.

Table of contents

• Réorganisations et groupements bancaires en Italie dans l´entre-deux-guerres (Giuseppe Conti)
• Founding a Multinational Financial Enterprise: Ionian Bank, 1833-1849 (Philip L. Cottrell)
• Sailing with the Nationalist Wind. The Case of the Serbian Bank in Zagreb (1895-1918) (Damir Jelić)
• From the Bank of J.F. Kostopoulos & Co. to the Hellenic Commercial Credit Bank (Kostas P. Kostis)
• La Banque Bulgare de Commerce (1895-1947): les créaterus et leurs successeurs (Alexandre Kostov)
• Créations etcréateurs de banques hypothécaires en France au XIX siècle (Michel Lescure)
• Two Banks and Two Bankers in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain (Pablo Martín-Aceña)
• Les créateurs de la Haute Banque Protestante en France (Alain Plessis)
• Design or Default? Who does Housebanking and Why? Some Impressions from Banks’ Archives. France and Germany, 1800-1915 (Monika Pohle Fraser)