The Tokyo market has often been a difficult financial environment for the non-Japanese to understand. This volume, written for an international readership, provides a study of the financial centre behind one of the world's largest economies.

The study of financial history has never been more important. This volume focuses on theories about the relationship of financial markets to the rest of the economy. Searching out information on financial institutions and markets from the past, this work tests theories from the 1980s and 90s with this data, mainly in two fields of economics: financial structure and performance and economic development. Understanding and testing the relationship between money and credit and the level of output in the economy, the author emphasizes, may help predict or prevent business cycles and even make it...

This volume provides a comparative analysis of the several types of banking structure and the ways in which banks undertake their business.

This report, prepared for the government by the National Consumer Council, examines money transmission, access to banking services, new technology, banking and the law, disputes between bank and customer, saving and borrowing.

This text traces in an analytical narrative the interplay of sectional and economic interests, political ideologies and partisan clashes that shaped the course of banking reform.

This comparative, international study looks at origins and business strategies of multinational banks. A team of distinguished bankers and academics surveys the evolution of multinational banks over time and suggests a conceptual framework in which this development can be understood.

In this text which has become the standard work on building societies, the author takes into account both economic and regulatory changes which took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

This volume examines various banking systems from around the world as well as the mechanisms of international and central banking. Although inevitably a reflection of the banking landscape at the time it was originally published, the book nonetheless represents a valuable tool in providing information on the history of banks and the banking sector which laid the foundations of the system we know today.

This volume examines the vulnerability of sound banks during financial crises, helps understand the nature of financial crises and other banking issues, traces the history of banking reform in the United States from 1933 until 1992 and discusses deregulation in the US banking system.

This volume examines the first hundred years of the Institute of Banking's development within the banking business as a whole, with a particular emphasis upon changes in the staffing requirements of the banks and the importance of professional qualifications in the careers of their employees. The survey includes a description of early attempts to form a professional institute for bankers between the 1840s and the 1870s. By examining the objectives, growth of membership and the extension of the Institute's activities, this volume throws light upon the changing work and qualifications of bank...