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Minimising Risk: Financial Intermediaries and Bond Issuing in London before the Great War

Author : Anders L. Mikkelsen

Published in: Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In the 1880s, increased competition forced issuing houses to incur a greater degree of underwriting and reputational risk and weakened their ability to act as effective market gatekeepers. This chapter analyses how issuing houses responded to these challenges, the methods adopted and the factors that furthered and retarded their ability to respond effectively. Market conservatism initially impeded an effective response until the Baring Crisis exposed the potential dangers of the new situation. This crisis prompted financial intermediaries to overcome market concerns and resulted in the development of standing international issuing syndicates and underwriting groups. The former enabled issuing houses to regain their position as effective gatekeepers, while underwriting groups effectively subcontracted underwriting risk to other parties and transformed the way underwriting risk was judged.

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Metadata
Title
Minimising Risk: Financial Intermediaries and Bond Issuing in London before the Great War
Author
Anders L. Mikkelsen
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks from Early Modernity to the 20th Century

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-42075-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-42076-9

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42076-9_5