Webinar
Finance & Photography
12 Jun 2020
eabh in cooperation with Europeana and Banco de España
In this webinar, Adrian Murphy (Europeana) talked about how organisations can unlock the full potential of their photography collections. His presentation focused on different ways to engage European audiences and digitised cultural heritage through online editorials, sessions, and interactive campaigns. He focused on the Europeana exposition ‘Migration’ which had begun in 2018.
The lecture was concluded with a case study of Banco de España’s photography collection, presented by Patricia Alonso and Elena Serrano.
Webinar
GDPR & COVID-19
Zoom Webinar
23 Mar 2020
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
In order to mark the day of the postponed GDPR & Historical Archives Workshop, we would like to invite you to a zoom web lecture.
Join GDPR specialist Arye Schreiber (MyEDPO) during an interactive session on:
- Vital interest and epidemics
- Public interest and public health
- How do we protect the health and privacy of our employees and site visitors?
- Lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak
- The need for massive data sharing
- The Open COVID-19 Data Curation Group
- International transfers
- ‘My home is my castle’ – Quarantine and privacy
Please contact c.hofmann@bankinghistory.org for details and registration.
Archival Workshop
Minting History
Financial history at face value
29 Oct 2019
London , United Kingdom
eabh in co-operation with The Rothschild Archive
This workshop is aimed at minting and financial institutions’ archivists, money museum curators and researchers. The extensive archives of mints are a treasure-trove of information often covering extended periods of time. Yet some of these archival treasures are only accessible to a handful of specialists or remain largely unknown to researchers and the public. This workshop aims to present these materials to a wider audience and make them more accessible to interested researchers and scholars.
Since antiquity, apart from serving as means of payment and store of value, coins also served politically and culturally important functions, representing sovereignty and fashioning identities. Private or public mints, acting in tune with economic development and financial innovation, created coinage that itself is a valuable source of social, political and cultural history.
What is the legacy of these mints’ records? What is their relevance today? Can the use of these records raise public awareness of their relevance for the history of money and finance?What is their research potential? Can they contribute to a wider view on the history of money and payment systems?
lunch hour
Can Finance Save the Planet?
Climate change and its implications for investors and policy makers
6 May 2019
Frankfurt , Germany
A global youth movement has coalesced in relation to the political lethargy towards climate change. Their force can no longer be ignored by global politics. Yet, what about other actors concerned? How for example does the financial sector influence the climate? Or controversy, how will ongoing environmental changes and political responses affect our money and investments?
In this talk we would like to take the opportunity to discuss a long-term view on the topic with two pioneering experts in the field. Amongst others the following questions will be addressed:
What is the rationale for sustainable or ESG (Environmental, Social and Government Investment)?
Do these investments enhance risk-adjusted returns?
Which is a best practice approach and has ESG investing changed over time?
What are the initiatives of the European Union to promote sustainable finance? Are they going in the right direction? Which are the current political headwinds?
How has central banks’ thinking about climate change developed over time? Which are their current streams of work regarding the topic?
What are the risks to financial stability emanating from climate change and the transition to a low carbon economy?
How and to what extend does climate change have an impact on the conduct of monetary policy? Or conversely, does monetary policy affect the climate?
Finally, will the financial sector be able to go beyond the role of dealing with the risks and consequences of climate change and be part of a solution?
All participants are kindly invited to join us and the experts for a free networking lunch following the discussion.
Please register in advance to avoid disappointment.
Conference
Institutional Investors
The history of professional fund management
26 Oct 2018
United Kingdom
Up to the beginning of the 20th century stocks were primarily owned by wealthy private individuals. Now, 100 years later, institutional investors hold almost twice the amount. The ascent of institutional investors as one of the most powerful players on global financial markets today is a highly relevant yet under researched topic.This conference will ask the question of when, how and why this massive structural shift happened? And which are the consequences for our societies? How can we set policy frameworks today in a way that ensures that these investors will be able to deliver adequate pension payments in the future?
Workshop
Frontiers in financial history
19 Jun 2018
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Together with University Bonn and Erasmus School of Economics eabh held a workshop for new scholars in the field of financial history research. The papers presented at the workshop are available here
Conference
Social aims of finance
Exploring alternative business forms for durable financial services
15 Jun 2018
Torino, Italy
eabh in cooperation with Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo
‘The City is too big and socially useless’
said Lord Adair Turner, former chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority in 2009.
That legitimacy question has not gone away since, indeed, if anything it appears to grow stronger. This conference explores how financial institutions have tackled it by developing alternative goals and business forms for durable financial services.
Archival Workshop
‘Good’ archives
14 Jun 2018
Torino, Italy
eabh in cooperation with Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo and UPIER (Uses of the Past in International Economic Relations
This one-day workshop is designed for financial institutions’ archivists, researchers and potential users. How can archives prepare their collections of information in a way that puts them to their best use? How do researchers use archive collections? Are there new ways that they can be used by financial institutions themselves as they face challenges of the present and future? How can the historical records be made accessible to and exploited by a wider audience? How can archives help us to reflect on legacy of the social purposes that inspired the origins of many financial institutions and the role of banks and finance in society?
Workshop
eabh New Scholar Workshop
13 Jun 2018
Torino, Italy
eabh in cooperation with Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo
This one day workshop is designed for advanced PhD students and recent postdoctoral researchers (with less than five years from completing their PhD) in banking, financial and monetary history.
Authors of selected manuscripts will have the opportunity to discuss their paper with experienced scholars at the workshop.
lunch hour
The winner takes it all?
Productivity, innovation & financial markets in the long run
28 May 2018
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Productivity growth has been trending down since the early 1970s in most developed economies, except for a few years around the year 2000. In emerging markets, productivity growth, too, has started to slow significantly around ten years ago. This is a puzzling development, as we see technological innovation taking place at a rapid pace. This moderation in productivity matters: ‘Productivity is a gift for our living standards – perhaps the greatest.’, Andrew Haldane, the BoE Chief Economist, said.
How can we explain this productivity puzzle, which is among the most pressing public policy issues today? And what does it imply for investors?
Can history be a guide? Let’s discuss with two experts.
Presenters:
Peter Gal, Economist at OECD
Stefan Hofrichter, Head of Global Economics at Allianz Global Investors
Moderated by Carmen Hofmann, Secretary General of eabh
Discussion with the audience is planned and all participants are kindly invited to join the discussants for a networking lunch kindly sponsored by Allianz Global Investors GmbH.