Crossing Continents
A History of Standard Chartered Bank
For almost a hundred years from the 1860s, the City of London's overseas banks financed the global trade that lay at the core of the British Empire. Foremost among them from the beginning were two start-up ventures: the Standard Bank of South Africa, which soon developed a powerful domestic franchise at the Cape, and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. This book traces their stories in the nineteenth century, their glory days before 1914 - and their remarkable survival in the face of global wars and the collapse of world trade in the first half of the twentieth century.The unravelling of the Empire after 1945 eventually forced B…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-199369-0
- EAN: 9780141993690
- Produktnummer: 34701517
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 944 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Duncan Campbell-Smith
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