Kleinwort, Benson: The History of Two Families in BankingThe Kleinwort Benson story mirrors both the spectacular growth of English capital and its often turbulent side-effects. It shows how the two families survived the collapse of the Benson bank in 1875, the freezing of Kleinwort assets and business by the European financial crisis of 1931, and two World Wars, and how they established their banks as powerful City players in the postwar period. Their story is as much a human drama as a financial history. |
Contents
List of Illustrations | xii |
The Expansion of Kleinworts | 105 |
The Rebuilding of Bensons | 148 |
Reversal and Recovery | 211 |
Heirs of the Establishment | 261 |
Kleinworts and the Urge to Merge | 319 |
Bensons and a Complementary Union | 348 |
A Modern Merchant Bank 19611971 | 379 |
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