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| The rise of the bill; brokers: growth of financial intermediaries | |
| brokers as agents for country banks | |
| bill broking in 1810 | |
| discount rates and the usury laws | |
| the origin of Overend, Gurney & Co | |
| Samuel Gurney comes to London | |
| rapid spread of the bill broker system, 1810-25 | |
| widespread use of the domestic bill | |
| The 1825 crisis and its results: the beginnings of joint stock banking | |
| provincial joint stock bank re-discounts | |
| early joint stock bank call loans | |
| the bank of England branches | |
| effects upon country bank re-discounting | |
| discrimination against joint stock issuer's paper | |
| the end of London bank re-discounting | |
| Growth of central banking functions: early efforts at credit control | |
| the policy of a "fixed and uniform" bank rate | |
| the first "open market" operations | |
| re-discount facilities for the bill market | |
| abuse of bill credit in the '30s | |
| advantages of the re-discounting system | |
| Consequences of the act of 1844 - the bank's "new discounting" policy: theory of the act of 1844 | |
| competitive discounting by the bank | |
| the principle of the "minimum" rate | |
| steady growth of the bill market | |
| the supremacy of Overend, Gurney | |
| long usances and their abuse | |
| bill market borrowing at the bank | |
| Consequences of the act of 1844 - the crisis of 1847: the railway "mania" | |
| bank's competition stimulates credit abuses | |
| reckless lending - and its sequel | |
| first suspension of the bank act | |
| was the bank to blame? | |
| bank's special power to influence rates | |
| bank act controversy obscures the real issues | |
| bank rate technique after 1847 | |
| an unconscious advance towards modern practice | |
| The bank and the market - withdrawal of re-discount facilities: rapid growth of trade and of banking | |
| expansion of the call loan system | |
| "one-name" re-discounts | |
| market call loans and reserve policy | |
| reliance upon the bank - an over-trading | |
| were the discount houses mis-judged? | |
| the crisis of 1857 | |
| the bank closes market "discount" accounts | |
| the practice of "keeping strong" | |
| discount houses "versus" the bank | |
| "intimidation" | |
| The rise of the discount companies: discount companies in the leather crisis | |
| boom in "financial" flotations | |
| the national's new capital | |
| the "triumph" of limited liability | |
| collapse of the "corner house" | |
| why did Gurney's fail? | |
| liquidation of Overend, Gurney & Co, Ltd | |
| supremacy of the national discount | |
| discount companies from 1885 to 1913 | |
| Growth of the international money market: the mania for foreign loans | |
| internationalization of commerce | |
| decline of the domestic bill | |
| the birth of the treasury bill | |
| foreign balances and sensitivity | |
| The moral supremacy of the bank of England: abandonment of the rule of "following" the market | |
| deposit allowances and excessive competition | |
| the "private and personal" rate of the bank of England | |
| bank's struggle for mastery - ineffectiveness of bank rate in the '80s | |
| the vigour of William Lidderdale | |
| the Baring crisis and after | |
| control regained - the effectiv | |
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History Of The London Discount Market
by King,W. T. C.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1972-07-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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