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International Banking in the 19th and 20th Centuries (St Martin's, 1983) online; Lane, Nicholas. "The Fathers of English Banking" History Today (Mar 1953) 3#3 pp 190-199; Michie, Ranald C. British Banking: Continuity and Change from 1694 to the Present (Oxford UP, 2016) 334 pp. online review
Thomas Smith (1631–99), was a mercer, and local alderman; as with many merchants his trade led to the safe keeping of funds and hence to banking.Premises that he used for his merchant and banking business were purchased in 1658, the year used to indicate the approximate formation of the bank.
In 1695, the Bank of England became one of the first banks to issue banknotes, the first being the short-lived banknotes issued by Stockholms Banco in 1661. [163] [164] Initially, these were hand-written and issued on deposit or as a loan, and promised to pay the bearer the value of the note on demand in specie. By 1745, standardized printed ...
A Perspective View of the Bank of England (published 1756): the bank initially occupied a narrow site behind the front on Threadneedle Street. The Bank of England moved to its current location, on the site of Sir John Houblon's house and garden in Threadneedle Street (close by the church of St Christopher le Stocks), in 1734. [52]
The Bank of England acts as the UK's central bank, influencing interest rates paid by private banks, to achieve targets in inflation, growth and employment. The Bank of England was originally established as a corporation with private shareholders under the Bank of England Act 1694, [1] to raise money for war with Louis XIV, King of France.
A goldsmith banker was a business role that emerged in seventeenth century London from the London goldsmiths where they gradually expanded their services to include storage of wealth, providing loans, transferring money and providing bills of exchange that would lead to the development of cheques. [1]
Panic of 1819, a U.S. recession with bank failures; culmination of U.S.'s first boom-to-bust economic cycle; Panic of 1825, a pervasive British recession in which many banks failed, nearly including the Bank of England; Panic of 1837, a U.S. recession with bank failures, followed by a 5-year depression; Panic of 1847, United Kingdom
The Bank of England adopted Bagehot's solution, which was an explicit policy of free offers to lend at high discount rates. This policy rebuilt the Bank's reserves. [ 13 ] It also moderated and refined its use of monetary policy to influence capital flows in and out of the United Kingdom.