“This is a collection of casual articles about the seemingly forbidding subject of merchant banking and about some of the world’s most outstanding and vener

"This book examines the ascendancy and decline of the British merchant banking industry over the last 200 years. It illustrates the central role these instituti

A biography of the powerful and successful merchant.

London merchant bankers emerged during the 1820s in the wake of financial turmoil caused by the wars of American Independence, the Napoleonic campaigns and the

J.Henry Schroder Wagg & Co has been a leading merchant bank of the City of London for more than a century. This book tells its history, from its founding in 181