Coleagues

The following is now being distributed


Technological Innovation in Retail Finance:
International Historical Perspectives
 
Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes
 
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671/

you can find the introduction here

http://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/26212.html

And I take the liberty of including the table of contents

PART I
Introduction

1 In Digital We Trust: The Computerization of Retail Finance
in Western Europe and North America
BERNARDO BÁTIZ-LAZO, J. CARLES MAIXÉ-ALTÉS, AND PAUL THOMES

PART II
Digitalizing Commercial Banks

2 From Prehistory to the History of Computers in Banking:
Mechanization of Data Processing and Accounting Methods
in French Banks, circa 1930–1950
HUBERT BONIN

3 Britain’s First Computer Centre for Banking: What Did This
Building Do?
IAN MARTIN

4 Technical and Organizational Change in Swedish Banking,
1975–2003
JOAKIM APPELQUIST

5 Computerization of Commercial Banks and the Building of an
Automated Payments System in Mexico, 1965–1990 92
GUSTAVO A. DEL ANGEL MOBARAK

PART III
Digitalizing State, Mutual, and Savings Banks

6 Is There an ICT Path in the German Savings Banking Industry?
Circa 1900–1970s
PAUL THOMES

7 Organizational Change and the Computerization of British
and Spanish Savings Banks, circa 1950–1985
BERNARDO BÁTIZ-LAZO AND J. CARLES MAIXÉ-ALTÉS

8 Techno-Nationalism, the Post Offi ce, and the Creation of
Britain’s National Giro
ALAN BOOTH AND MARK BILLINGS

9 Rabobank: An Innovative Dutch Bank, 1945–2000
JOKE MOOIJ

PART IV
Socio-Historical Aspects of Digitalization

10 The Automated House: The Digitalization of the London
Stock Exchange, 1955–1990
JUAN PABLO PARDO-GUERRA

11 Historicizing Consumer Credit Risk Calculation: The Fair Isaac
Process of Commercial Scorecard Manufacture,
1957–circa 1980
MARTHA POON

12 Automating Payments: Origins of the Visa Electronic
Payment System
DAVID STEARNS

PART V
Wrapping Up and Grand Conclusions

13 Retail Banking and the Dynamics of Information Technology
in Business Organizations
LARS HEIDE

Saludos / best wishes

Bernardo

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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