Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing.

ISBN 075460263X ; Description: x, 320 p. : ill. ;
24 cm. Summary: Consolidation and concentration trends in banking was
the theme of the Academic Archive Colloquium of the European Association
for Banking History held in Madrid, June 1997. This volume comprises 18
papers and responses presented at the colloquium. Contents: Pt. I.
History and Archives of Consolidation in European Banking: General
Trends and some Case Studies. 1. Introduction: A Century of
Consolidation in European Banking -- General Trends / Youssef Cassis. 2.
Bank Mergers ad Consolidation in Spanish History / Gabriel Tortella. 3.
Spanish Banking Archives and the Legacy of Mergers and Acquisitions /
Teresa Tortella. 4. Marriage Lines: The Archive Dimensions of Bank
Mergers / Edwin Green. 5. Comments / Eric Bussiere -- Pt. II. Legal
Aspects of Bank Mergers. 6. Supervision and Regulation and Bank Mergers:
A Historical Survey / Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk. 7. The Banking
Crisis and its Implications for Swiss Banking Legislation in the 1930s /
Patrick Halbeisen. Responsibility:edited by Manfred Pohl, Teresa
Tortella, and Herman van der Wee.