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Title The origins of international banking in Asia : the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Shizuya Nishimura, Toshio Suzuki, and Ranald C. Michie
Edition 1st ed
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Contents ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""The Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The City of London as a Centre for International Banking: The Asian Dimension in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries""; ""2. British International Banks in Asia, 1870�1914: An Introductory Essay""; ""3. The Rise and Decline of the Oriental Bank Corporation, 1842�84""; ""4. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 1870�1913""; ""5. French Banking in Hong Kong: From the 1860s to the 1950s""
""6. The Russo-Chinese Bank (1896�1910): An International Bank in Russia and Asia""""7. The Overseas Expansion of Japanese Banks, 1880�2006""; ""8. The Activities of the Yokohama Specie Bank in the Foreign Trade Financing Operations for Raw Cotton before the First World War""; ""9. The Activities of Japanese Banks in Interwar Financial Centres: The Cases of the Yokohama Specie Bank�s Offices in London and New York""; ""10. International Correspondent Networks: Asian and British Banks in the Twentieth Century""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""
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Summary Without a means of crediting and debiting accounts worldwide and the non-physical transfer of funds, the rapid global economic integration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would have been impossible. It is the globalization of the banking system, much of which, particularly in Asia, had its roots in the nineteenth century, that helped facilitate increased human mobility, the exchange of commodities and manufactures, and the simplified transfer of funds. This volume examines the origins, growth, and business practices of European banks in Asia, and the development of Asian (notably Japanese and Hong Kong) banks, and their operations on an international stage, and in doing so, provides important new detail and analysis of economic globalization. It draws on the archival documentation of main British, French, and Japanese banks involved and provides analysis from a range of historical viewpoints, including global banking strategy, monetaryregimes, financial markets, international trade, labour immigration, and the development of communication tools
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Banks and banking, International -- Asia -- History -- 19th century
Banks and banking, International -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Banks & Banking.
Banks and banking, International
Asia
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Nishimura, Shizuya, 1929-
Suzuki, Toshio, 1948 July 29-
Michie, R. C., 1949-
ISBN 9780191641336
0191641332
1280876336
9781280876332
9780191745256
0191745251