Subject(s): Banks and banking -- Finance -- Banks and banking. -- Financial institutions -- International finance -- Private Bankers -- Concentration of capital , 1840-75 : banking revolution, railway adventure, Rivalry between London and Paris -- Globalised world 1875-1914 : globalisation , Globalization, World financial capital, Rise of Berlin and New York, Belle Epoque of the bankers -- War and depression: Great wars, winters, Second world war -- Growth and regulation : Difficult return to convertibility, Euromarkers -- Globalisation, Innovation and crisis, New world economy, leading financial centres at the dawn of the Twenty-first century , Global financial meltdown