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| | Editor | Brian caplen | | Categories | Global Finance | | Frequency | Monthly | | Total Circulation | 28,000 | | First issue | 1926 | | Company | Financial Times | | Country |
 United Kingdom | | Language | English | | Website | www.TheBanker.com | Published monthly The Banker covers the investment, retail and commercial banking sectors and is published by the Financial Times group. Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Content The magazine contains the following sections: - Bracken: A column named after the magazine's founder, Brendan Bracken, that discusses the global financial system.
- Karina's Kolumn: Contains interviews with the prime ministers, presidents and finance ministers involved in international finance and politics.
- Banking: Covers retail banking.
- Technology: Contains articles on banking technology.
- Capital markets: Contains articles on investment banking and corporate credit
- Country reports: Contains reports on countries
- Monthly Supplements: Cover a particular country, region or topic.
- Financial Intelligence Guides: Written by industry practitioners.
Readership The magazine claims an audited readership of 28,000 [citation needed]financial practitioners and bankers.
History The Banker magazine was founded in 1926 by the editor of the Financial Times, Brendan Bracken. Its issue, which cost one shilling, profiled Montagu Norman, the governor of the Bank of England, by Sir Robert Horne, a former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, and articles discussing the merits of bank mergers and the Labour Party’s policy on bank nationalisation. Brendan Bracken (1901 - 1958) was an Irish-born British Conservative cabinet minister. ...
The Banker has had some notable contributors in the past. In March 1926, one of the century’s foremost economists, John Maynard Keynes, profiled the 19th-century economist Walter Bagehot. In the same issue Italian finance minister, Count Volpi, wrote on “The Achievements of Fascism”. Later that year future UK prime minister Harold Macmillan commented on local government finance, and in May 1928, H G Wells wrote about the money credit system. John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (pronounced cains, IPA ) (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments fiscal policies. ...
Walter Bagehot (3 February 1826 – 24 March 1877), IPA (see [[1]]), was a nineteenth century British economist. ...
The history of The Banker is closely tied to the development of London as a global financial centre and reflects the political connections of Brendan Bracken, who edited the publication until 1937.
The Banker addressed post World War II financial issues, including a articles in January 1946 on ‘Economic Peace in our Time?’ by Einzig and ‘The Nationalisation of the French Banking System’, by J Grahame-Parker which had taken place the previous month.
Under long-time editor Wilfred King (1946-66) The Banker addressed the era of post-war economic expansion and the beginning of big bank mergers in the US in the mid-1950s, such as that of Chase National Bank and the Bank of Manhattan.
In January 1966, the magazine clearly reflected the passage of history in its leader ‘Warning from the Fed’, which read: “It would be a pity if the furore set off last month by the action of the US Federal Reserve Board in raising the discount rate from 4% to 4.5%, higher than it has been for 35 years, were to distract from the need to see the move in perspective. Obviously enough, it amounted to a clear defiance of the Administration’s repeatedly voiced hostility to dearer money.” Such issues still have resonance 40 years later.
1970 was a landmark year for The Banker with the first ever annual worldwide ranking of banks. Then only covering 300 banks and based on asset size, the rankings have since expanded to become the Top 1000 World Banks (based on Tier I capital). Today The Banker’s Top 1000 ranking and other country and regional listings represent the definitive source of bank data across the globe.
By the 1980s, as the LDC (less developed countries) debt crisis demonstrated the fragility of financial sectors, new rules and regulations proliferated and bankers adjusted to new market conditions. But some perennial issues continued. For example, Julian Walmsley wrote in January 1986: “New techniques to counter interest rate volatility have helped to erode the US banks’ competitive position against the securities houses.” And The Banker interviewed Charles Winter, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, which faced “a difficult task in bringing together a newly-merged group (now including Williams & Glyn’s and Charterhouse Japhet) and expanding its English branch network”.
In recent years banks have become preoccupied with mergers and acquisitions, capital adequacy and increasing regulation but they have also become much more customer-focused and much more profitable. Basel I capital rules have helped create a more level playing field in an increasingly globalised world. And technology has become a catalyst not only for change but also for increasing mergers, consolidation and efficiency.
Reflecting on technology, change and banking, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, noted in a January 1996 article in The Banker: “The status quo in almost any sphere is usually reticent to embrace change, but a glance through the 70 years of reporting within The Banker should offer comfort. It shows an industry that is robust and adaptable – and, unlike the dinosaurs, well positioned to benefit from evolution.” [1]
Awards The Banker gives out the technology, investment banking and bank of the year awards.
External links - The Banker
- The Banker at the Financial Times Group corporate website
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