A Century of Banking Consolidation in Europe
Aldershot. 2001
Editors
Manfred Pohl
Teresa Tortella
Herman van der Wee
From the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century the European banking sector experienced countless mergers and acquisitions. The outcome of this century of consolidation is strikingly similar across the continent, with the banking sector of each country now dominated by a handful of giant banking corporations. Some of the themes explored in the book include: the significance of mergers for bank archives; the regulation of mergers and their impact on banking legislation; reactions to consolidation from within and without the banking industry; case studies of particular mergers and their impact on the wider banking community.
Table of contents
- A Century of Consolidation in European Banking – General Trends (Youssef Cassis)
- Bank Mergers and Consolidation in Spanish History (Gabriel Tortella)
- Spanish Banking Archives and the Legacy of Mergers and Acquisitions (Teresa Tortella)
- Marriage Lines: The Archives Dimension of Bank Mergers (Edwin Green)
- Supervision and Regulation of Bank Mergers: A Historical Survey (Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk)
- The Banking Crisis and its Implications for Swiss Banking Legislation in the 1930s (Patrick Halbeisen)
- The Application of European Community Regulations to Consolidations of Credit and other Financial Companies (Joaquin Lopez Madruga)
- ‘Banks and Yanks’: Towards a History of the Restructuring of the London Securities industry in the 1980s (David Kynaston)
- Bank Mergers and their Social Consequences, 1920-50. The Case of the Clydesdale Bank (Charles W. Munn)
- Banking Mergers in Twentieth-Century Scotland (Alan Cameron)
- Responses to Banking Concentration in Germany, 1900-33 (Gerald d. Feldman)
- The Demand for Banking Deconcentration in France 1900-97: A Recurrent Endeavour to Alleviate Big Banks’ Hegemony (Hubert Bonin)
- Overseas Banking in Latin America: Personal Reflections on the 1950s and 1960s (Eric Whittle)
- European Banks in Latin America in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries: The Cases of Brazil and Mexico – a Story of Diversity (Carlos Marichal, Gail D. Triner)