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This volume explores the implications of colonialism in Pacific Banking. The Yokohama Specie Bank was, from 1880 until its closure by the Americans in 1946, the engine of Japanese overseas foreign banking. No other Asian peoples were able to achieve financial power at this time. The British, despite being challenged by other colonial powers such as France, through various banking houses, and especially through the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, were able to exert a powerful influence throughout the region. They recruited able British nationals to heed banking operations in South and East Asia.
List of contents
List of Tables - List of Figures - Preface - Abbreviations - List of Contributors - Japanese Foreign: Trade and the Yokohama Specie Bank, 1880-1913; K.Ishii - The Flow of Funds within the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in 1913; S.Nishimura - Overseas Chinese Remittance and Asian Banking History; T.Hamashita - The French Banks' Activity in the Pacific Area of Asia; H.Bonin - Export Bankers: The Migration of British Bank Personnel to the Pacific Region, 1850-1914; E.Green - Trading East: Financial Needs and Necessities: a Scottish Perspective; M.Moss - Italian Banking in California, 1904-1931; M.Beber - Juichi Soyeda, 1864-1929: A Chequered Banking Career; O.Checkland - British Multinational Banks in Asia before 1960; G.Jones - Australian Banks and Asia: Opportunity Foregone or Rational Management? An Industrial Organisation Approach; D.Merrett - The American 'Democratisation' of Japanese Banking, 1945-1959; N.Tamaki - Conclusion; R.Cameron - Index
