What is new for historical archives under the GDPR regime? In particular in a Post-Covid environment? This workshop aims to look at the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on historical archives, in particular, but not exclusively, in the financial sector.

This conference will discuss the phenomenon of currency unions in a global historical context with a special focus on the challenges brought about by trends of isolationism and confrontation. Motivation, designand factors explaining the resilience (or the lack thereof) of currency unions will be...

This conference will look at the relationship between the financial sector and migration-takinga comparative historical view.

Development banks are seen as an important tool to solve market imperfections, alleviate capital scarcity and fund long term infrastructure projects. At the same time they are often criticised for supporting politically well connected industrialists and political regimes. Despite this...

The workshop has been cancelled.

This conference explores how financial institutions have tackled it by developing alternative goals and business forms for durable financial services. We look for submissions of genuine research about the history dimension of: - non-profit banking and finance models with social or environmental...

The purpose of this conference is to explore the history of the monetary and financial processes of decolonization, often less studied than the political and the cultural ones. The objective is to shed light on the different historical cross-experiences such as a comparative analysis of the...

The haute banque emerged as an elite or sub-category of private banks in France during the Restauration (1815 – 1830) and reached its climax in the 1850s and 1860s. These institutions were well respected and dealt with major international businesses which also had business with the State....

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and eabh will host a two-day conference for archivists and financial historians to present their current work in bank archives, including central bank archives, and banking and financial history. Archivists will present innovations in archival work and...

In 1967 the American economist Raymond Goldsmith forecast the imminent decline of commercial high street banks. While necessary in the early stages of modern economic growth as a means of mobilizing savings and allocating capital, they would lose their usefulness as the financial structure of...