Download or read book The Role of London as an Offshore Financial Centre in the Liberalisation of International Finance Since the Second World War written by Jan Fichtner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of Sussex, 0 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the question whether the City of London acted as an offshore financial centre since the Second World War. This in turn is linked to the specific role London played in the liberalisation and deregulation of international finance which took place at an increasing pace since the 1970s. Special attention is paid to the rise of the so-called euromarkets and why this development was tolerated by the Bank of England.