The Rise of Merchant Banking.
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 Ci...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor and Francis,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Rise of Merchant Banking; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; 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 at 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; Notes and References; Appendices.
- Appendix 1: Capital and Numbers of Partners in some Merchant Banks at the End of the Nineteenth Century (1896-1908)Appendix 2: Directorships and Spheres of Interest of Merchant Bankers, 1914-15; Appendix 3: Migration of Bankers from the Provinces to London; Appendix 4: Acceptances of some leading London Accepting Houses 1890-1914 (£m.); Appendix 5: Bibliography of Useful Works on Particular Merchant Banks; Index of people and places; Index of Subjects.
