This book is a valuable companion for everyone who is interested in the historical context of the co-evolution of financial markets and information technologies in the last 30 years. The contributors analyze system architectures and solution technologies in banking and finance by focusing on the particularities of certain practices and risks.

BERNARDO BÁTIZ-LAZO is Senior Lecturer in Business and Accounting History at the Business School, Leicester University, UKSTEFANO BATTILOSSI is Associate Professor at the Department of Economic History and Institutions, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, SpainDAVID GUGERLI is Professor of History of Technology at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, SwitzerlandDONALD MACKENZIE holds a Personal Chair in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UKJOCELYN PIXLEY is Professorial Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK, and Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Sidney, AustraliaCLAUDIA REESE is a historian specializing in the study of the evolution of marketsSUSAN V. SCOTT is Senior Lecturer in the Information Systems and Innovation Group at the Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

List of Figures List of Tables Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Financial Deregulation and Technological Change; A-A.Kyrtsis The Eurodollar Revolution in Financial Technology: Deregulation, Innovation and Structural Change in Western Banking; S.Battilossi Tensions between Economic Policies, Technology, and Banker's Professional Perceptions; J.Pixley Opening the Black-Box of Global Finance; D.MacKenzie Data Banking: Computing and Flexibility in Swiss Banks 1960-1990; D.Gugerli Is the Future of ATM Past?; B.Bátiz-Lazo& C.Reese Understanding the Characteristics of Techno-Innovation in an Era of Self-Regulated Financial Services; S.V.Scott Organizational Diversity, Network Topologies and the Manageability of Banks; A-A.Kyrtsis Author and Name Index Subject Index