Banking Alliances

The following sections are included:

• Preface

• Contents

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• A Contemporary Overview

• The Earliest Days of Banking

• The 18^th Century
  • The Birth of the Baring Brothers
  • The Rothschilds

• The 19^th Century
  • English Bankers–Financiers to the World
  • The Emergence of Strong German Banking
  • Chinese Bankers and the Western World
  • Japanese Banking–A Rapid Transformation
  • The Ascendancy of U.S. Banking

• Conclusion

• Selected References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
  • Clearing vs. Merchant Banks

• An Archaic System in a World Class City

• The Reform Movement
  • Privatizing Major Industries
  • Scrutinizing the Financial Sector

• The Eurodollar Markets
  • The Monetary Goals of the European Union
  • The United Kingdom and Monetary Union
  • The Off-Shore Market in U.S. Dollars

• Deregulation and the Big Bang
  • Early Liberalization
  • The Big Bang

• Important Lessons
  • Merging Different Cultures
  • Managing Branch Networks
  • Capital vs. Skill
  • Adequate Supervision: The Case of Barings

• The New Financial Services Authority and Future Directions

• Future Indications

• Selected References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Setting the Stage for Economic Development

• A Post War Economic Miracle
  • Reforming the System After the War
  • Insights into the German Company
  • Two Forms of Development

• The Growth of Universal Banking in the German Economy

• Conclusion

• Selected References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Early Modernization

• Breaking Up the Zaibatsu

• Reestablishing Powerful Alliances

• The High Growth Years
  • The Income Doubling Plan
  • The New Keiretsu
  • Coordination of Government, Industry, and Banking

• International Expansion
  • Japan: The Control Center
  • Expanding Into the United States

• Penetrating the Keiretsu

• Reforming the Financial System of Japan?

• Conclusion

• Selected References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• China: Breaking Economic Ties with the Past
  • Transition to the People's Republic of China
  • The Socialist Banking System
  • Economic Reform
  • Support from the Banking Sector

• Hong Kong Industry and Banking
  • Hong Kong as an Industrial Center
  • The Hong Kong Trading Companies
  • Greater China

• South Korea: Adapting the Japanese Model
  • The Economic Plan
  • The Chaebols

• Conclusion

• Selected References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Misconceptions About the U.S. Banking Industry
  • The True Cause of Early U.S. Money Panics
  • The Great Depression: Facts and Myths

• The Glass-Steagall Act
  • The Provisions of the Act
  • The Effects of Glass-Steagall

• The Investment Shortfall
  • Aggregate Investment
  • Lack of Dedicated Capital

• The American Banking Keiretsu

• Selected References

The following sections are included:

• Index