Plumbers and Visionaries
Subtitle: Securities Settlement and Europe's Financial Market (The Wiley Finance Series)
Publisher: Wiley; John Wiley & Sons
Published: February 8, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780470724255
Subjects: International finance; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Finance; Investments & Securities - General; Business & Economics / Finance; Clearing of securities; Europe
Description: Plumbers and Visionaries: Securities Settlement and Europe's Financial Market is a path-breaking account of the history and future of the securities settlement industry in Europe. Written by experienced journalist and author, Peter Norman, this book takes a look at the less visible, but nevertheless critical segment of the global capital markets, following the development of securities settlement across Europe's frontiers. It encompasses the free-wheeling days of the Eurobond market in the 1960s, through the growing integration of the European Union, to the highly regulated and efficient multi-trillion euro business it is today. It is the story of a sector strongly influenced by developments in the US that has nonetheless developed in a uniquely European way.