Private Banking in Europe: Rise, Retreat, and Resurgence

by Youssef Cassis (Author), Philip L. Cottrell (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2015

  $138.85

  For centuries private bankers owned and managed their banks, usually with unlimited liability.In the mid-19th century they faced increasing competition. This book traces the rise and decline of this original form of banking, and its revival in the late 20th century as a response to the development of a new market - the management of personal wealth