The Merchant Bankers

Author : Joseph Wechsberg
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Merchant Bankers written by Joseph Wechsberg and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a collection of casual articles about the seemingly forbidding subject of merchant banking and about some of the world’s most outstanding and venerable merchant bankers — Hambros, Barings, Warburg, in London; Mattioli in Milan; Abs in Frankfurt; Lehman Brothers in New York; and the Rothschilds in Paris and London... Joseph Wechsberg gives the history of each of these institutions, most of which remain family controlled, and he presents profiles of the men who are or have been their guiding lights, whose very character serves to distinguish each of these mysterious citadels from the other and from lesser breeds in the more understandable area of commercial banking. The most remarkable feature of this truly fascinating book is the amount of knowledge the author brings to bear upon his subject in a most unobtrusive way. The articles are rich in information and a pleasure to read.” — Kirkus “Mr. Wechsberg... has selected the names of seven merchant banks and bankers and written the story of each with a sparkling lucidity that is reminiscent of New Yorker Profiles... Mr. Wechsberg’s sketches of men and institutions make good reading.” — Saturday Review “New Yorker Correspondent Joseph Wechsberg[’s]... stories have a richness of color and some details of remarkable deals that have turned money into factories, jobs and useful products for everybody’s compound interest.” — Time Magazine

Author : Stanley Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135032459
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Merchant Banking written by Stanley Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 international business. Dr Chapman has researched new material from the archives of Rothschilds, Barings, Kleinwort Benson and other leading houses together with a wide range of archives and published work in Europe, America and South Africa to trace the roots of British enterprise in financing international trade, exporting capital, floating companies, arbitrage, and other activities of the merchant banks. While mindful of the subtleties of international financial connections, this book assumes no previous acquaintance with the jargon of banking, economics and sociology. It will therefore prove equally interesting to students of history, business and finance, and offers a 'good read' to anyone interested in the City of London and the international economy.

Author : Erik Banks
Publisher : Kogan Page
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Merchant Banks written by Erik Banks and published by Kogan Page. This book was released on 1999 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the ascendancy and decline of the British merchant banking industry over the last 200 years. It illustrates the central role these institutions played in the growth and development of the global and domestic economy and assesses their prospects and influence in a continuously changing environment." "The origins, ascendancy, triumphs, contributions, failures and decline of these institutions are analysed with reference to the external forces which shape them, from the dawn of merchant banking in the 18th century, to the peak years of dominance in the 19th century, and into the challenging War and post-War years when power and influence were lost to European universal banks and US global financial conglomerates."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Richard Roberts
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349096504
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schroders written by Richard Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.Henry Schroder Wagg & Co has been a leading merchant bank of the City of London for more than a century. This book tells its history, from its founding in 1818 by John Henry Schroder, a Hamburg merchant, through difficult times in the international slump of the early 1930s, to its rise to one of the largest and most prestigious of city firms in London today.

Author : Kathleen Burk
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198283065
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morgan Grenfell, 1838-1988 written by Kathleen Burk and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the arresting 150-year story of one of the oldest and most illustrious merchant banks and of the men who made it. Founded in 1838 by an American, George Peabody, Morgan Grenfell quickly became the most important American banking house in London, and by the turn of the century held an unrivalled position as part of the most powerful investment bank in the world. The book chronicles its role in financing theoverseas purchases of Britain and her allies during the First World War, in taking the lead amongst the private London bankers in reconstructing Europe during the 1920s, and in pioneering the new field of corporate finance. In the 1980s Morgan Grenfell took off with a substantial rise in profits andan extraordinarily powerful Corporate Finance Department: an epilogue summarises recent events to the end of 1988 when it decided to exit from securities in London and to concentrate on developing its areas of traditional strength. Based on a wide range of original sources, this book is unmatched as a banking history: no other book combines the unrestricted access to the bank's archives afforded to the author with a narrative of events up to the 1980s.

Author : Joseph Wechsberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671833060
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchant Bankers written by Joseph Wechsberg and published by . This book was released on 1979-09-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Augar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greed Merchants written by Philip Augar and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Player Manager" comes a controversial insider's look at the secret world of investment banking.

Author : Manuel Llorca-Ja?a
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351543938
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Globalization of Merchant Banking before 1850 written by Manuel Llorca-Ja?a and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the Anglo-American war of 1812. Though the majority of merchant bankers remained cautious in their affairs, Huth & Co established an impressive global network of trade and lending, dealing with over 6,000 correspondents in more than seventy countries. Based on archival research, this comparative study provides a new chronology of early nineteenth-century commercial and financial expansion.Huth & Co. were truly market-makers and key intermediaries of commodities and capital flows in the international economy. This is an important example of a firm shaping globalisation well before the transport and communication revolution of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. But rather than a case study, this is a comparative study concerned with the commercial and financial activities of the leading merchant-bankers of the periodThis book will be of great interest to business and economic historians interested in the nature of the early decades of the first globalization.

Author : Jacob Strieder
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781587981098
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacob Fugger the Rich written by Jacob Strieder and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2001-07-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the powerful and successful merchant.

Author : Peter James Hudson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645925X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bankers and Empire written by Peter James Hudson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism—but they also set the model for bad behavior by banks, visible still today. In Bankers and Empire, Peter James Hudson tells the provocative story of this period, taking a close look at both the institutions and individuals who defined this era of American capitalism in the West Indies. Whether in Wall Street minstrel shows or in dubious practices across the Caribbean, the behavior of the banks was deeply conditioned by bankers’ racial views and prejudices. Drawing deeply on a broad range of sources, Hudson reveals that the banks’ experimental practices and projects in the Caribbean often led to embarrassing failure, and, eventually, literal erasure from the archives.