Introduction and Overview

Abstract

The purpose of this book, quite simply, is to analyse today’s generation of Euro-banks from the perspective of management to determine how these banks are dealing with the critical issues they face at the end of the 1970s. The Euro-bond and Euro-currency markets centred in London have been the objects of extensive research and analysis by scholars, journalists and practitioners focusing on such sectors as economic theory and practice, market evolution and structure, and lending and investing practices. For an excellent coverage of these and other aspects of the Euro-markets, the reader is referred to volumes by Paul Einzig, Geoffrey Bell, Brian Scott Quinn and the Robert Morris Associates/Bankers’ Association for Foreign Trade.¹