Ionian Bank. An imperial institution, 1839-1864
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- Author(s) Cottrell, P L
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2007
- Pages 411pp; illus
- Publisher Alpha Bank
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly history of the early years of the bank commissioned by Alpha Bank, Greece, from a leading academic historian, dealing with the origins and development of the bank and the political and diplomatic context in which it operated. Includes much financial analysis. Chapters include: 'Colonial paternalism - 'modernisation' and banking'; 'Pioneering the new banking - the Farrer-Wright group'; 'Chartering the Ionian Bank, 1838-1844'; 'Opening for business, 1839-1846'; 'Crisis, recovery and consolidation, 1847-1850'; 'Locust years, 1851-1857'; 'Reconstitution, 1858-1860'; 'Transformation into an Anglo Greek bank, 1860-1864'; 'Afterword - the ending of the beginning'. Touches on the Bank of Australasia, an overseas bank promoted at the same time. Also covers Wright & Co and John Wright, promoter of British overseas banks including Ionian Bank and Bank of Australasia