Crossing Continents
a history of standard chartered bank
$139.84
- Hardcover
944 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2021
Summary
Standard Chartered: A Century of Global Finance
A magnificent history of one of the world’s most distinctive financial institutions.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241458730 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241458730 |
| Author: | Duncan Campbell-Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 944 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.27kg |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 162mm x 45mm |
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excellent … Duncan Campbell-Smith’s sparkling new account of Standard Chartered Bank … is a door-stopping, desk-breaking heavyweight tome … of patient text and brilliantly evocative photographs. Campbell-Smith, a former banker and journalist, had access to Standard Chartered’s rich archive, and what emerges is work of painstaking scholarship. Multiple sources are woven together into a compelling record of imperial and post-imperial banking – Philip Augar * Financial Times *
About The Author
Duncan Campbell-Smith
Duncan Campbell-Smith is a former Financial Times and Economist journalist. He has worked in the City and with McKinsey, and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. His previous books include Follow the Money- The Audit Commission; Public Money and the Management of Public Services, 1983-2008 and Masters of the Post- The Authorized History of the Royal Mail, which won the Wadsworth Prize as Business History Book of the Year in 2011.
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