The forms of interbank cooperation that took place in the 1960s and 1970s have recently attracted renewed attention. During this period, banks responded to market changes that shifted their focus from commercial banking and payments to capital markets in a context of anticipated erosion of national regulatory borders. These banking groups and consortia banks faced challenges yet remain a fascinating example of cooperative strategies. One of the least well understood aspects is the relationship between cross-border payments and these forms of cooperation, which this paper uncovers in the example of a seldom discussed consortium bank, Société Financière Européene. This paper presents new evidence on the impact of banking groups on the architecture of the global payments system at a time of technological innovation, deregulation and internationalisation.
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Jansson, O. and Larsson, M. (eds.) Bestående ekonomisk-historiska nätverk. Vänbok till professor Jan Ottosson
This book is a festschrift to professor Jan Ottosson in honour of his retirement from the Department of Economic History, Uppsala university at the age of 67. Jan Ottosson has been a doctoral student, researcher and university teacher since the 1980s. Since then he has done extensive work in a number of different fields, including the role of networks, theories on economic change and continuity, infrastructure and transport history, labour markets and industrial relations, banking and finance. This anthology includes 13 articles written by 19 economic historians that have meet and collaborated with Jan Ottosson over the years. Keywords: Economic History, Business History
Olle Jansson & Mats Larsson (eds.) Bestående ekonomisk-historiska nätverk. Vänbok till professor Jan Ottosson
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis - Uppsala Studies in Economic History, 131
Published: 15 December 2025 (online)
English/Swedish
ISBN: 978-91-513-2642-9 (print)
