Published company histories of banks (Standard Bank, Barclays, etc.)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	company records or reports
Producer	Bank historians
Coverage	1860s-2000
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	3
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bond (1998)	Henry, The First Hundred Years of the Standard Bank (1963)	1860s-1930s	Company history cited for share-market values, bank lending behaviour, speculation and bank-farmer conflicts, and loan-to-deposit ratios.
Bond (1998)	Standard Bank (1988) An Historical Overview; Barclays Bank (1938) A Banking Centenary	1883-1938	Cited for Standard's dropping of 'British' from its name in 1883 amid Afrikaner criticism.
Jones (2009)	Standard Bank accounts (sources of earnings, 1860s-1960), as reported in Jones (1996), The great Imperial Banks in South Africa, 1861-1961	1860s-1960	Shows that the composition of bank earnings (about two thirds from interest on discounts or overdrafts, one third from commissions and fees) was unchanged from the 1860s to 1960.
Keegan (1985)	G. T. Amphlett, History of the Standard Bank of South Africa, 1862-1913 (1914)	1910-1914	Provides the growth in bank branches (5 to 17) and loans in the Free State to show the expansion of commercial banking.
Mazanderani (2012)	Company histories of the Big Four banks and other firms with foreign interest (e.g. Barclays DCO, Standard Bank, Anglo American)	1914-2000	Identified as planned source material for the thesis on foreign-owned banks and firms; not yet used for specific claims.