The purpose of this presentation is to trace some of the key developments of Deutsche Bank's over 130-year-long history with American markets in order to draw or reinforce some observations about 21st century financial architecture, specifically about the roles played by financial intermediaries...

As Mira Wilkins has argued, there is a curious disconnect between business and financial history. (Wilkins, 2003) Whereas business history literature has rediscovered the importance of family business in many countries and in many sectors of contemporary commercial life, for example, little has...