Financial Markets and Organizational Technologies - (Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institut) by A Kyrtsis (Hardcover)

About the Book

"This book is the outcome of a one-day conference held at the premises of the Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece in Athens on 29 November 2008."--Pref.

Book Synopsis

This book is a valuable companion for everyone who is interested in the historical context of the co-evolution of financial markets and information technologies in the last 30 years. The contributors analyze system architectures and solution technologies in banking and finance by focusing on the particularities of certain practices and risks.

About the Author

BERNARDO BÁTIZ-LAZO is Senior Lecturer in Business and Accounting History at the Business School, Leicester University, UK STEFANO BATTILOSSI is Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History and Institutions, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain DAVID GUGERLI is Professor of History of Technology at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland DONALD MACKENZIE holds a Personal Chair in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK JOCELYN PIXLEY is Professorial Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK, and Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sidney, Australia CLAUDIA REESE is a historian specializing in the study of the evolution of markets SUSAN V. SCOTT is Senior Lecturer in the Information Systems and Innovation Group at the Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK