Download or read book The Gentleman Banker written by Giorgio A. Chiarva and published by New Acdemia+ORM. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biographical novel recounts the extraordinary intuitions of the Italian-American visionary founder of the world’s largest bank, the Bank of America. Amadeo Peter, or AP for his San Francisco friends, dedicated his life to generate wealth for the people of his home town, in particular for the Italian immigrant’s community. He was an innovator and humanist, who always put the common good ahead of personal gain. He revolutionized the banking system when he financed the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake by making micro-loans to hundreds of Italian immigrants lacking collateral. The other banks, which required collateral in order to make a loan, were unable to put the money into circulation. He was a visionary in the film industry, financing the movie, The Kid, by an unknown and extravagant Charlie Chaplin who was turned down by other banks. It was the first time a loan was granted without interest, and repaid from box office revenues. The same happened with Walt Disney for his masterpiece, Snow White. In addition, Giannini realized the potential of the new audio technology developed by two young inventors, Bill Hewlett and David Packard, and put them in touch with Disney for his following productions, and financed the industry that the two entrepreneurs began in a garage in Palo Alto. Another successful project financed by Giannini’s bank was the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, designed by Joseph Strauss, an engineer without solid credentials, as a daring steel structure. The loan was granted without interest, with the understanding that it would be repaid from toll revenues. And it did, many times over. Giannini revealed his acumen as a venture capitalist when he persuaded Henry Kaiser to convert his enterprise from the construction of roads and bridges to ship building. During WWII, with Giannini’s encouragement, the shipyard was able to build 24 ships in record time, which were used to transport the troops to Europe. After the war, Giannini’s bank contributed $37M to Italy’s reconstruction, one year in advance of the Marshall Plan. And much more...This book tells it all.

Download or read book Gentlemen Bankers written by Susie J. Pak and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family’s power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international relationships. At the turn of the twentieth century, private banking was a personal enterprise in which business relationships were a statement of identity and reputation. In an era when ethnic and religious differences were pronounced and anti-Semitism was prevalent, Anglo-American and German-Jewish elite bankers lived in their respective cordoned communities, seldom interacting with one another outside the business realm. Ironically, the tacit agreement to maintain separate social spheres made it easier to cooperate in purely financial matters on Wall Street. But as Susie Pak demonstrates, the Morgans’ exceptional relationship with the German-Jewish investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co., their strongest competitor and also an important collaborator, was entangled in ways that went far beyond the pursuit of mutual profitability. Delving into the archives of many Morgan partners and legacies, Gentlemen Bankers draws on never-before published letters and testimony to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and friendships among the Wall Street aristocracy during the first half of the twentieth century.

Download or read book The Banker s Wife Or Court and City written by Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Millionaire Rogue written by Jessica Peterson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of stately decorum, the Hope Diamond was a source of delicious intrigue—and a font of unimaginable adventure… Though not of noble birth, Thomas Hope has a skill in banking that’s made him one of the richest, most trusted men in London. Still, he keeps his dubious past hidden. So when an old acquaintance calls on Hope to help acquire the infamous French Blue Diamond, he’s desperate to be discreet. He never expects that his biggest concern shouldn’t be losing his reputation, but his heart… Sophia Blaise is determined to make a brilliant match with this season’s most eligible, most titled bachelor, but her true passion has been ignited by the incredible stories she hears while secretly transcribing the memoirs of a notorious Madam. After a night of clandestine writing ends with Sophia caught up in a scandalous adventure of her own—with an alluring banker—she begins to question whether she’s suited to the proper life she’s always known… Caught up in a thrilling exploit and unexpected romance, Sophia must make a choice between what her head knows is safe and what her heart desperately desires, before both slip from her grasp forever…

Download or read book Bankers and Gentlemen written by Gene M. Gressley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gentleman s Guide in Money Negociations written by and published by . This book was released on 1820* with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gentleman written by Alfred Ollivant and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Gentleman by Alfred Ollivant

Download or read book The Gentleman in the Bowler Hat written by Eric Girten and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jameson Sturn knows that being CEO of Sturn Bank is more than just fulfilling his role in the Sturn family legacy. It is about dedication to a cause. When he learns of a sinister plot to loot the bank, Jameson must work quickly to foil the plot. His adversaries are no ordinary criminals and Sturn Bank is no ordinary bank. It holds the wealth of governments and royalty. The downfall of Sturn Bank would sustain the criminal enterprise set against it and Jameson knows that the defeat of this crime syndicate is ultimately more important than even saving the bank and his family legacy. With any luck, and some expert help from his companions, he will be able to defeat his adversaries and leave the Sturn name untarnished.

Download or read book Gentlemen of Fortune written by Paul Ferris and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scholar Banker Gentleman Soldier written by Yap Pheng Geck and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1982-12-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Yap Pheng Geck was well known in the Banking and Finance circles of Singapore. He layed a prominent part in the early days of Chinese banks, especially in the establishment of the present Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC). In these reminiscences he vividly recalls his childhood, his early schooldays and the vicissitudes of the Japanese war in Southeast Asia, bringing back nostalgic memories of Singapore forty years ago.

Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Gentleman of Quality written by Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Never a Gentleman written by Heather Boyd and published by Heather Boyd. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Knight has never been able to juggle his work and love life to anyone’s satisfaction. A hardworking investment banker in London, he’s obsessed with maintaining his clients’ privacy and profits, and cannot understand why those same clients are withdrawing funds when he’s making them a good profit. When a dull evening supper at the Hunt Club ends in a blunt invitation to have sex with the Earl of Beecroft, he welcomes the distraction on the proviso they never discuss his business affairs. Daniel Wellham, the Earl of Beecroft, has long admired Victor Knight. He even understands and admires the banker’s preoccupation with work. Their night together is everything he hoped it would be and while he longs for permanence, his secret life as a spy means he can never reveal too much of his own history. Unfortunately, when he realizes that all is not right in Victor’s life, those promises he made to keep his nose out of the banker’s business means he cannot offer to help or explain that his latest mission might take him away forever. How can love and trust be possible when duty and responsibility prevent total honesty?

Download or read book Money in the Bank written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not too long after deciding to stash away the family fortune in diamonds, the 6th Viscount Uffenham forgets where he hid them. Forced to let out Shipley Hall he desperately needs to recover the loot as the family seat is now overrun by Clarissa Cork.

Download or read book The Banker and the Bear written by Henry Kitchell Webster and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Chicago is not mentioned in the book as the scene of action, the Chamber of Commerce of that city is the point round which the action centers. The Bear and the Banker are chums. The Bull is financed by the Banker in the endeavor to run the "corner" in lard, and the story derives its title from the necessity found by the Bear for the ruin of his chum the Banker, in order to upset the financial schemes of the Bull. A stirring love story threads its way through the financial excitement of the book. Show Excerpt cigars, and there was nothing to prohibit a boy and a girl from sitting close together on the wide sofa and looking over portfolios of steel engravings from famous paintings--and talking of nothing in particular, or at least not of the steel engravings. At last one Sunday afternoon in early spring, after months of suspense that seemed years to John, Alice consented to marry him, and John was so happy that he did not blush or stammer, as they had been sure he would, when he told the Sponleys about it. There never was such an illumination as the street lamps made that evening when John walked back to his father's house; and something in his big dismal room, the single faint-heartedgas-jet, perhaps, threw a rosy glow even over that. When he had left Bagsbury and Company to go to work for Dawson, there had occurred no change in John's personal relation with his father. That relation had never amounted to much, but they continued to live on not unfriendly terms. Quite unconscious that he was misusing