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Coleagues<br>
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The following is now being distributed<br>
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Technological Innovation in Retail Finance:
International Historical Perspectives
Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671/">http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671/</a></font></pre>
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you can find the introduction here<br>
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<a href="http://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/26212.html">http://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/26212.html</a><br>
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And I take the liberty of including the table of contents<br>
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PART I<br>
Introduction<br>
<br>
1 In Digital We Trust: The Computerization of Retail Finance<br>
in Western Europe and North America<br>
BERNARDO BÁTIZ-LAZO, J. CARLES MAIXÉ-ALTÉS, AND PAUL THOMES<br>
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PART II<br>
Digitalizing Commercial Banks<br>
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2 From Prehistory to the History of Computers in Banking:<br>
Mechanization of Data Processing and Accounting Methods<br>
in French Banks, circa 1930–1950<br>
HUBERT BONIN<br>
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3 Britain’s First Computer Centre for Banking: What Did This<br>
Building Do? <br>
IAN MARTIN<br>
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4 Technical and Organizational Change in Swedish Banking,<br>
1975–2003<br>
JOAKIM APPELQUIST<br>
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5 Computerization of Commercial Banks and the Building of an<br>
Automated Payments System in Mexico, 1965–1990 92<br>
GUSTAVO A. DEL ANGEL MOBARAK<br>
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PART III<br>
Digitalizing State, Mutual, and Savings Banks<br>
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6 Is There an ICT Path in the German Savings Banking Industry?<br>
Circa 1900–1970s<br>
PAUL THOMES<br>
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7 Organizational Change and the Computerization of British<br>
and Spanish Savings Banks, circa 1950–1985<br>
BERNARDO BÁTIZ-LAZO AND J. CARLES MAIXÉ-ALTÉS<br>
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8 Techno-Nationalism, the Post Offi ce, and the Creation of<br>
Britain’s National Giro<br>
ALAN BOOTH AND MARK BILLINGS<br>
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9 Rabobank: An Innovative Dutch Bank, 1945–2000<br>
JOKE MOOIJ<br>
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PART IV<br>
Socio-Historical Aspects of Digitalization<br>
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10 The Automated House: The Digitalization of the London<br>
Stock Exchange, 1955–1990<br>
JUAN PABLO PARDO-GUERRA<br>
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11 Historicizing Consumer Credit Risk Calculation: The Fair Isaac<br>
Process of Commercial Scorecard Manufacture,<br>
1957–circa 1980<br>
MARTHA POON<br>
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12 Automating Payments: Origins of the Visa Electronic<br>
Payment System<br>
DAVID STEARNS<br>
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PART V<br>
Wrapping Up and Grand Conclusions<br>
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13 Retail Banking and the Dynamics of Information Technology<br>
in Business Organizations<br>
LARS HEIDE<br>
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Saludos / best wishes<br>
<br>
Bernardo<br>
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Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, FRHistS
Professor of Business History and Bank Management
Ysgol Busnes Bangor / Bangor Business School
Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University
Gwynedd LL57 2DG (Cymru / Wales)
b.batiz-lazo [at] bangor.ac.uk</pre>
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