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    Extent of Foreign Bank Representation

    The expansion of foreign bank operations in the United States has been impressive. Over 150 foreign banks now operate representative offices, agencies, branches and subsidiaries in the United States, represent...

    Francis A. Lees in Foreign Banking and Investment in the United States (1976)

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    National Representation Strategies

    Foreign banks have made use of several basic organisational structures to achieve maximum expansion of the U.S. side of their activities. In the first section of this chapter we examine the organisational stru...

    Francis A. Lees in Foreign Banking and Investment in the United States (1976)

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    Multinational Portfolio Management

    In the period 1960–74 the scope of international investment operations has expanded at a quickening pace. This expansion has been achieved despite the appearance of new and formidable obstacles such as U.S. co...

    Francis A. Lees in Foreign Banking and Investment in the United States (1976)

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    Lessons from the U.K. Experience

    For over a century London has functioned as an international financial and banking centre. This status accrued to The City as a result of the far-flung colonial empire that required varied financial and bankin...

    Francis A. Lees in Foreign Banking and Investment in the United States (1976)

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    The World of International Banking

    During the decade of the 1960s banks in the United States assumed a prominent role in international finance, based on the development of overseas branch offices and acquisitions of ownership in foreign subsidi...

    Francis A. Lees in Foreign Banking and Investment in the United States (1976)

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    Factors Accounting for Expanded U.S. Presence

    In this chapter we review the advantages inherent in direct U.S. representation, and point to the factors responsible for the expansion of foreign banking operations in the United States. A concluding section ...

    Francis A. Lees in Foreign Banking and Investment in the United States (1976)

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    Impact on U.S. Banking and Finance

    The banking structure in the United States is unique in many respects. The primary jurisdiction of each of the fifty states has yielded fifty different state banking systems, each with its own rules on branchi...

    Francis A. Lees in Foreign Banking and Investment in the United States (1976)

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    Regulatory Issues and Alternatives

    The current regulatory treatment of foreign banks in the United States is a patchwork of overlap** jurisdiction in limited areas, juxtaposed against a wide gap at the federal level. Regulation of foreign ban...

    Francis A. Lees in Foreign Banking and Investment in the United States (1976)

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    Problems and Issues

    In preceding chapters we viewed the rapid growth of foreign banking in the United States, and noted that the period 1965–75 has witnessed at least a partial internationalisation of the American banking system ...

    Francis A. Lees in Foreign Banking and Investment in the United States (1976)