ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000
The overall objective of GloCoBank is to analyse the changing shape of international banking networks across the 20th century using an innovative methodology that allows greater specificity and inclusion than ever before. The bilateral correspondent banking network that will be uncovered by GloCoBank was the structure on which the global financial system was built and on which the trade and specialization that drove global development was based, but we know very little about it. When merchants settled accounts across borders, they did so through transfers from the merchant’s bank to the customer’s bank. From the time of the telegraph in the late 19th century, the contraction of time and…
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