Colleagues Please circulate to anyone who might be able to make a contribution, and please have them contact J. Carles Maixe-Altes <maixe@udc.es> on a first instance. Kind regards Bernardo and Carles *Call for papers*** ** ** *TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN RETAIL FINANCE OF SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA ***** (Session proposal for the 11th International Congress of the Spanish Association of Economic History, [XI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Historia Económica, AEHE]. Madrid, September 2014)*** * ** ** *Organisers: *J. Carles Maixé-Altés (maixe@udc.es) and Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo ( b.batiz-lazo@bangor.ac.uk)**** ** ** Several authors have noted that the history of computing and information technology must be considered in a wide context, spanning countries, industries and societies. With this in mind whilist continuing with the effort by Bátiz-Lazo, Maixé-Altés and Thomes (Routledge, 2011), we aim to focus in greater depth on a region that seems to have received little attention. Spain and Latin America form a nucleus of exceptional importance. Most business organizations in these geographies are chiefly "late" adopters of adopters of computer technology, that is, they tend to embrace tried and tested applications and emphasise "tropicalization" and "domestication". This panel thus aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to better understand the historical transformations in which technological change has operated in retail finance within Spain and Latin America. In this framework, the following lines of work are proposed: ** ** - Technology within different financial institutions: banks, savings banks, mutual banks, central banks, cooperative banks and public banks -The world of insurance and its companies **** - Mechanisation and automation of stock markets and financial markets **** - Financial businesses and hardware manufacturers**** - The viewpoint of the history of applications and software in retail finance: systems of bank interconnection, new financial products and the scale and diversification of markets **** - “Plastic cards” and financial self servicing **** - The historical and sociological basis of a cashless society, financial digitalisation and customer relationship management**** - Comparisons between industries and countries **** - Digitalisation and financial globalisation **** ** ** *Agenda:* All parties interested in contributing to this session are invited to send a proposal of their paper via electronic post to any of the organisers (including a title, authors, relationship and a brief extract of the proposal). The deadline for receipt is 21 December 2012. In the spirit of the organisers, we plan to promote an edited book collecting the contributions to this session. **** -- ================== Twitter @BatizLazo 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 Home page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/business/staff/bernardo_batiz-lazo.en.php Working papers: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba14.html