This book uses the epochal events of the financial crisis and Brexit to examine post-2008 developments in international financial centres. It considers the hierarchy of financial centres, the medium-term effects of the financial crisis, and the rise of new technology

There has been renewed interest in the role of financial elites since the economic crisis of 2008. This edited book examines the role of financial elites from a historical perspective through a series of studies of various European countries throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries