The creators and the creation of banking enterprises in Europe from the 18th to the 20th century
By: edited by Kostas P. Kostis
Contributors: Alpha Bank; European Association for Banking History
Publisher: Alpha Bank Historical Archives
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9789608531390
Subjects: Banks and banking; Congresses; History
Notes: "This volume contains the papers presented at the workshop 'The creators and the creation of banking enterprises in Europe from the 18th to the 20th century', which took place in the building of the General State Archives, in the Old Castle of Corfu, on 5 and 6 October 2001. The workshop was organised by Alpha Bank in collaboration with the European Association of Banking"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Papers in English or French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Youssef Cassis; title: Réorganisations et groupements bancaires en Italie dans l'entre-deux-guerres / Giuseppe Conti; title: Founding a multinational financial enterprise : Ionian Bank, 1833-1849 / Philip L. Cottrell; title: Archives of the founder : examples from the HSBC Group / Edwin Green; title: Sailing with the nationalist wind : the case of the Serbian bank in Zagreb (1895-1918) / Damir Jelic; title: From the bank of J.F. Kostopoulos & Co. to the Hellenic Commercial Credit bank / Kostas P. Kostis; title: Le Banque Bulgare de Commerce (1895-1947) : les créateurs et leurs successeurs / Alexandre Kostov; title: Créations et créateurs de banques hypothécaires en France au XIX siècle / Michel Lescure; title: Two banks and two bankers in mid-nineteenth-century Spain / Pablo Martin-Aceña; title: Les créateurs de la Haute Banque Protestante en France / Alain Plessis; title: Design or default? : Who does housebanking and why? Some impressions from banks' archives, France and Germany, 1800-1915 / Monika Pohle Fraser.