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• GloCoBank project start date announced
• Dr Sebastian Alvarez
• Dr Wilfried Kisling
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• Professor Hyun Song Shin
• Professor Dariusz Wojcik
• Dr Linda S. Goldberg
• PANEL: Annual Conference of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2021: Making Sense of Finance - Prof. Catherine Schenk
• SEMINAR: Prof. Catherine Schenk, ‘Central Bank Swaps: then and now’ - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• CONFERENCE: International Banking Networks: Sources of Stability or Instability? Evidence from the Past and Present - HoF-SAFE-IBF
• DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2021 Workshop on Monetary and Financial History - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - Prof. Catherine Schenk
• Catherine R. Schenk, 'International Economic Relations since 1945', 2nd edition (forthcoming June 2021)
• BOOK: Catherine R. Schenk, 'International Economic Relations since 1945', 2nd edition
• Dr Marco Molteni
• International Banking Networks conference (22 April) programme now confirmed
• Dr Alena Pivavarava
• Introducing new GloCoBank research team member Dr Alena Pivavarava
• International banking networks: sources of stability or instability?
• The past and future of cross-border payments
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• Bank Underground blog by Catherine Schenk: When should policymakers reach for the history books?
• Blogs
• When should policymakers reach for the history books? Some examples from the 20th century (Bank Underground)
• Videos & podcasts
• Dr Thibaud Giddey
• Welcome to new GloCoBank researcher Dr Thibaud Giddey
• Working paper by Catherine Schenk: "Unusual, Unstable, Complicated, Unreliable and Temporary” Reinterpreting the Ebb and Flow of Globalization
• Robert N. McCauley
• New options to improve the global financial safety net (Chatham House Expert Comment)
• Policymakers can learn from Nixon's 'dollar shock' (Chatham House Expert Comment)
• Uziel González-Aliaga
• Kirsty Peacock
• Introducing new research team member Dr Marco Molteni
• SEMINAR: Thibaud Giddey and Catherine R. Schenk, 'Global Correspondent Banking in the 20th century: the position of Luxembourg'
• BOOK: Youssef Cassis, Catherine R. Schenk (eds.), 'Remembering and Learning from Financial Crises'
• JOB OPPORTUNITIES: 2 x Post-Doctoral Researchers in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000
• THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT BANKING IN THE USA 1970–89
• BOOK: Eiji Hotori, Mikael Wendschlag, Thibaud Giddey, 'Formalization of Banking Supervision, 19th-20th Centuries'
• New publication by GloCoBank researcher Thibaud Giddey
• WORKING PAPER: Catherine R. Schenk, Michael D. Bordo, '"Unusual, Unstable, Complicated, Unreliable and Temporary” Reinterpreting the Ebb and Flow of Globalization'
• Talking GloCoBank - the story so far
• Radio 4 'In Our Time' programme on the Gold Standard with Catherine Schenk
• GloCoBank annual workshop (Feb 2022)
• WORKSHOP: GloCoBank Annual Workshop (1)
• WORKSHOP: International Banking and Finance in Troubled Times: Reflections from the Past
• JOB VACANCY: Post-doctoral Researcher in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 - South America
• PANEL DISCUSSION: 1971–2021 50 Years of Flexible Exchange Rates: reasons, lessons and perspectives
• CONFERENCE: Macro-financial stability policy in a globalised world: lessons from international experience
• CONFERENCE SERIES: The Future of the International Monetary System
• CONFERENCE: EHS Annual Conference 2022
• CONFERENCE: European Historical Economics Society Conference
• Catherine Schenk participates in Radio 4 documentary 'How to Steal a Trillion' (30 May)
• LECTURE: Prof. Catherine Schenk, 'Designing the Global Payments System: Telegraph to Tether'
• CONFERENCE: XIX World Economic History Congress 2022
• JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 - European Networks
• JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 - East Asia
• 'International Banking and Finance in Troubled Times: Reflections from the Past' workshop report (June 2022)
• VIDEO: 'Designing the Global Payments System: Telegraph to Tether' - lecture by Catherine R. Schenk
• VIDEO: '1971 – 2021 50 Years of Flexible Exchange Rates: reasons, lessons and perspectives' - panel discussion featuring Catherine R. Schenk
• VIDEO: 'Constructing and Deconstructing the Global Payments System 1870-2000' - lecture by Catherine R. Schenk
• Call for Papers: GloCoBank conference 23-24 Mar 2023 - deadline extension 2 Jan 2023
• CONFERENCE: The Evolution of the Global Payments System | GloCoBank Project Event
• Dr Sabine Schneider
• WORKSHOP: Where is the money? Financial networks and the geography of credit development
• WORKSHOP: Anniversaries, memory, and history of financial crises (MERCATOR project)
• SEMINAR: Queen's University Belfast Centre for Economic History Seminar Series
• WORKSHOP: International Macroeconomics in Historical Perspective
• Where was the money?
• Dr Manuel A. Bautista-González
• Call for Papers: GloCoBank early-career researcher workshop 25 May 2023 - deadline 30 Jan
• WORKSHOP: Towards an Alternative History of Banking Internationalization: Switzerland and Global Networks (19th-20th centuries)
• WORKSHOP: New Frontiers for Data Analytics in Economic and Business History Research | GloCoBank Annual Workshop (2)
• Dollar Debt in FX Swaps and Forwards - new article by Robert McCauley
• London as a financial centre since Brexit - Robert N. McCauley
• GloCoBank UNIQ+ Research Internships now open for 2023 applications
• Dr Jamieson G. Myles
• 'From telegraph to cryptocurrency': article by Catherine Schenk in Börsen-Zeitung
• GloCoBank conference registration form
• ‘Branching vs. Correspondents in 'Cross-Border' Banking Expansion? Evidence from Italy, 1870s-1913’
• ‘Opening the black box of foreign correspondent banking: the case of Banca Commerciale Italiana in the 20th century’
• ‘How and why to make a currency global? An infrastructural comparative study of the Eurodollar and the international Yuan cases’
• ‘Banking on the Deutsche Mark: The Bundesbank and West German bank internationalisation after Bretton Woods (1968–1985)’
• ‘Central Bank Digital Currencies and the International Payment System: The Demise of the US Dollar?’
• ‘Near-Money in History: Cryptocurrencies Versus Bills of Exchange’
• ‘Private Provision of Money Orders in the United States by Express and Telegraph Companies’
• ‘How do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?’
• ‘International Banking in the Socialist World, 1956–1970’
• 'The Role of Payment Systems in Mongolia's Financial Inclusion and Economic Integration'
• ‘The Internationalization of Banking in Latin America: Foreign Banks and Correspondent Banking Networks (1870-1914)’
• ‘Why has the United Nations unification of global payment law failed?’
• ‘Reform that you may preserve. SWIFT’s directed change towards platformisation of global payments’
• Dr Nora Yitong Qiu
• Registration is now open: GloCoBank conference 23-24 March 2023
• From telegraph to cryptocurency: the development of the global payments system
• Dr Akram Beniamin
• GloCoBank research team update
• SEMINAR: Professor Gustavo A. Del Angel (CIDE, Mexico), 'Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability. Mexico 1977-1990'
• CONFERENCE: EHS Annual Conference 2023
• Zir - A GUI software for supervised, structured OCR of printed source material.
• The Cliometrics of Cartography: A Digital Method to Georeference and Assess the Accuracy of Maritime Historical Maps.
• Unlocking the Common Crawl to learn about innovative economic activities over space and time.
• Mapping Vienna's Economic Geography: A Historical Microdata Analysis of Spatial Structure and Evolution (1880-1936).
• Geographic scales of Belgian financial growth (1870-1914).
• (Almost) 200 Years of News-Based Economic Sentiment.
• Becoming a Central Banker: Exploring Three Hundred Biographies in a Century of the Banco de la República's History.
• Media Image of Correspondent Banking in the US (1990-2022): An NLP-based Analysis.
• Networking Populism: The Neoliberal Schism and the Transnational Origins of the Eurosceptic Thought Collective.
• Visualising the Wartime Japanese Empire’s Capital and Power Elites Networks of the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry.
• Historical Household Finance Database for the Low Countries: a common extensible data model for historical household financial data.
• Who Collaborates with the Soviets? Financial Distress and Technology Transfer during the Great Depression.
• The Evolution of the Global Payments System conference (March 2023) report
• SEMINAR: Susie J. Pak (St John's University). '"Wall Street Loves a Comeback": The Genre of Financial True Crime'
• Dr Gary Robinson
• FOREIGN BANKS AND THE LONDON MONEY MARKET DURING THE FIRST GLOBALISATION
• Marco Molteni wins GGH prize 2023 in Historical Finance
• JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 – Data Analysis
• CONFERENCE: European Historical Economics Society Conference 2023
• CONFERENCE: Eighth Meeting of the Spanish Economic History Association (AEHE)
• Conference: 2023 Annual ABH Conference Pushing the Boundaries: Business History beyond the Discipline
• Professor John Singleton
• Report: GloCoBank Early-Career Researcher Workshop: New Frontiers for Data Analytics in Economic and Business History Research
• International payments, correspondent banking and the American challenge to Belgian banks in the 1960s
• Report: GloCoBank Annual Workshop (13 Sept 2023)
• PODCAST: 'How to Steal a Trillion: The Invention of Offshore' - contributor Catherine Schenk
• PODCAST: 'In Our Time - The Gold Standard' - contributor Catherine Schenk
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• BOOK CHAPTER: Catherine R. Schenk, 'Telegraph to Tether: Challenges in the Global Payments System and the Struggle between Private and Public Interests'
• JOURNAL ARTICLE: Marco Molteni, 'Credit expansion, leverage, and banking distress: the puzzle of interwar Italy'
• MOVING MONEY - REDESIGNING THE GLOBAL PAYMENTS SYSTEM 1969-99
• Giovanni Pala
• Mapping Global Banking Networks in the Early Twentieth Century: Banks with Correspondent Connections to London (1901-1913)
• The Internationalisation of Midland Bank: Edward Holden and Correspondent Banking Relations in the United States and Canada (1891-1919)
• GloCoBank UNIQ+ interns 2023: international banking connections and international commerce 1870-1980
• Launch of the EMU Lab: roundtable on the history of European Economic and Monetary Integration
• The reciprocity principle in correspondent banking relations. The case of Banca Commerciale Italiana in the first half of the twentieth century
• VIDEO: Launch event of the EMU Lab - roundtable on the history of European Economic and Monetary Integration - contributor Catherine Schenk
• CONFERENCE: EHS Annual Conference 2024
• CONFERENCE: 2024 Business History Conference (BHC)
• CONFERENCE: Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2024 (AAS)
• SEMINAR: Economic History Seminar, University of Barcelona
• WORKSHOP: GloCoBank Annual Workshop (3)
• JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 - European Networks
• Dr Zhang Wen
• Dr Robert Yee
• Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000: Use of cookies on this website
• JOURNAL ARTICLE: Marco Molteni, 'Competition, over-branching, and bank failures during the Great Depression: new evidence from Italy'
• Association for Asian Studies (AAS) conference 2024 - report by Nora Yitong Qiu
• Business History Conference (BHC) 2024 - report by Jamieson Myles
• JOURNAL ARTICLE: Marco Molteni, Wilfried Kisling, 'The London money market and non-British bank lending during the first globalisation: evidence from Brazil'
• CONFERENCE: Annual Conference of the European Business History Association (EBHA) 2024
• CONFERENCE: Joint 49th EBHS and Association of Business Historians Conference
• WEBINAR: Financial History Network - Catherine Schenk, 'Moving Money - Redesigning the Global Payments System, 1969-99'
• Dr Sean Vanatta
• Dr Marianna Astore
• CONFERENCE: European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS)
• Joint ABH-EBHS Conference 2024 - report by Akram Beniamin
• Welcoming Dr Marianna Astore to the GloCoBank team!
• Annual Congress of the European Business History Association (EBHA) 2024 - report by Marianna Astore
• JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 - European Networks
• Report: GloCoBank Annual Workshop (12 Sept 2024)
• CALL FOR PAPERS: GloCoBank Conference on Cross-Border Payments in Historical Perspective, 27-28 March 2025
• CONFERENCE: Cross-Border Payments in Historical Perspective | GloCoBank Project Event
• CONFERENCE: Conference on European Economic Integration
• CONFERENCE: A History of the Accesses to the International Financial Markets for Emerging Economies: Lessons from Japan and Latin American Countries
• Sihao Feng
• Dr Tehreem Husain
• VIDEO: 'The History of the Economic and Monetary Union: Major Achievements and Key Challenges' - keynote lecture by Catherine R. Schenk
• Max Buchs
• Dr Sabine Schneider