Ninety years of wisdom and sanity Brian Caplen

摘要

A few years after the banker was founded in 1926, the new ledger posting machine was hailed as a revolution in mechanical accounting. Costs were set to fall and the reliability of book-keeping would be improved beyond all recognition. Ninety years later, The Banker's editorial diet continues to focus on the industry's key issues - technology (of a rather more advanced kind than ledger posting machines), regulation, the breadth of banking activities from capital markets to retail and, of course, financial crises and the industry's response to them.