IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/fihrev/v27y2020i3p397-417_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Regulatory foundations of financialisation: May Day, Big Bang and international banking, 1975–1990

Author

Listed:
  • Schenk, Catherine R.

Abstract

From the 1970s to the 1990s there was a revolution in international financial markets, which combined the processes of financialisation and globalisation. Deregulation and financial innovation were the two underlying forces that facilitated this transformation. At the same time, distinctive national characteristics of banking structures and cultures influenced the way that financial globalisation affected the geographic distribution of financial activity. This article addresses these seismic shifts through three perspectives: changes in regulation and the geographic pattern of international banking activity, reform of the main stock markets in New York and London and the rise of financial conglomerates. It identifies complementarity as well as competition among international financial centres.

Suggested Citation

  • Schenk, Catherine R., 2020. "Regulatory foundations of financialisation: May Day, Big Bang and international banking, 1975–1990," Financial History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 27(3), pages 397-417, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:fihrev:v:27:y:2020:i:3:p:397-417_7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0968565020000189/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Tom Duterme, 2022. "Do modern stock exchanges emerge from competition? Evidence from the “Belgian Big Bang”," Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Springer, vol. 3(2), pages 351-371, July.
    2. Goodhart, C. A. E. & Sato, Hideki, 2024. "A note on the differences between European and international methodologies of banking regulation and supervision," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 122044, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:fihrev:v:27:y:2020:i:3:p:397-417_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/fhr .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.