1st Edition
Capital City London as a Finacial Centre
Originally published in 1985, Capital City: London as a Financial Centre proves in depth analytical description of the financial institutions of the City of London. The book describes in detail the operations of the banks, the stock market, the insurance world and other bodies that make up the world’s largest international financial centre. The book also answers a series of questions on the City’s performance, accountability and honesty and explains how the City reached its present position, discuss its future.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. How it All Happened
2. Personal Banking
3. Money Market Banking
4. The Money and Foreign Exchange Markets
5. The Institutional Investors
6. The Securities Market
7. The Insurance World
8. The Commodity Markets and the Baltic Exchange
9. The Bank of England
10. Where the City Goes Now
Biography
Hamish McRae, Frances Cairncross