A Century of Banking Consolidation in Europe

Manfred Pohl, Teresa Tortella and Herman van der Wee Youssef Cassis, Gabriel Tortella, Teresa Tortella, Edwin Green, Eric Bussiere, Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk, Patrick Halbeisen, Joaquin Lopez Madruga, David Kynaston, Charles W. Munn, Alan Cameron, Ton de Graaf, Gerald D. Feldman, Hubert Bonin, Maurice Hamon, Eric Whittle, Carlos Marichal, Gail D. Triner, Geoffrey Jones, Manfred Pohl.

Contents: History and archives of consolidation in European banking: general trends and some case studies: Introduction: 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 archive dimensions of bank mergers, Edwin Green; Comments, Eric Bussière; Legal aspects of bank mergers: 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; Social and financial aspects of consolidation: ’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 20th-century Scotland, Alan Cameron; Comments, Ton de Graaf; Concentration versus Deconcentration in continental banking: 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; Comments, Maurice Hamon; Mergers and European banking in Latin America: Overseas banking in Latin America: personal reflections on the 1950s and 1960s, Eric Whittle; European banks in Latin America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the cases of Brazil and Mexico, a story of diversity, Carlos Marichal and Gail D. Triner; Comments, Geoffrey Jones; Concluding remarks, Manfred Pohl, Index.