This volume concentrates on the international banking revolution of the 1960's and includes a new and important outlook on the groundwork for financial globalization, based on historical perspectives. The four major issues addressed in this book are the revival of London as a strong and competitive world financial center, emergence of Euro-banking as a new benchmark of growth for credit institutions, growing competition between American financial institutions and their global counterparts, and the Strategic response of European and Continental institutions.

• 1: Stefano Battilossi: Introduction. International Banking and the American Challenge in Historical Perspective


• 2: Youssef Cassis: Before the Storm: European Banks in the 1950s


• 3: Richard Sylla: United States Banks and Europe: Strategy and Attitudes


• 4: Catherine R. Schenk: International Finanical Centres 1958-1971: Competitiveness and Complementarity


• 5: Stefano Battilossi: Banking with Multinationals: British Clearing Banks and the Euromarkets' Challenge, 1958-1976


• 6: Duncan M. Ross: Clubs and Consortia: European Banking Groups as Strategic Alliances


• 7: Eric Bussière: European Aspirations and Market Reality: Paribas, the Crédit Lyonnais, and their European Strategies in the 1960s and 1970s


• 8: Ulrich Ramm: German Banks and the American Challenge


• 9: Harold James: Central Banks and the Process of Financial Internationalization: A Secular View

Stefano Battilossi is Visiting Professor at the Department of Economic History, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, and Visiting Fellow at the Business History Unit, London School of Economics.
Youssef Cassis is Professor at the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Grenoble II, and Visiting Fellow at the Business History Unit, London School of Economics.