238 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first serious history of merchant banking, based on the archives of the leading houses and the records of their activities throughout the world. It combines scholarly insight with readability, and offers a totally new assessment of the origins of one of the most dynamic sectors of the City of London money market, of the British economy as a whole and of a major aspect of the growth of... Read more
Preface
1. The Evolution of Merchant Roles in Eighteenth-century Finance
2. Market Leaders: Rothschilds and Barings
3. New Competitors
4. The Structure of Merchant Banking and its Nineteenth-century Pinnacle
5. Qualification: 'Indubitable Credit'
6. The Work of Issue Houses
7. The Work of Accepting Houses
8. The Decline of Merchanting
9. Consortiums and Syndicates
10. Performance
Biography
Chapman, Stanley
