...Ingrid Jeacle Purpose This paper aims to consider the role of the bank clerk in the Victorian era and to provide insights into clerical life in a London bank during the period. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on the archival records of Hoare and Company. Founded in the seventeenth...

...J. Carles Maixé‐Altés Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how Spanish savings banks have come to compete directly with commercial banks. It also looks at how regulatory changes and corporate strategies have affected the nature of competition between the two types of bank in Spain...