IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/029
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: BRITISH BANKERS' ASSOCIATION
Date(s): 1821-1988
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2360 production units.
Name of creator(s): British Bankers' Association | society promoting the interests of banks
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The British Bankers' Association was established in 1919 as a result of the merger of the Central Association of Bankers and the Association of English Country Bankers. Its object was to better promote the interests of the banking community by having just one responsible association.
The Central Association had been established in 1895 by representatives of the London Clearing House, the West End banks and the Association of English Country Bankers to "safeguard the interests of bankers as a whole ... without in any way interfering with the work of the older societies". From the start, the Central Association was a channel for consultation, information and defence of banks. It was not concerned with the interests of bank officials which were cared for by the Institute of Bankers, although it shared the Institute's premises at 34 St Clements Lane.
The Association of English Country Bankers had been formed in 1874 to defend the interests of country banks.
Until 1972, membership of the British Bankers' Association was open only to British (including Dominion and Colonial) banks. After 1972, it was enlarged to include representatives of all recognised banks operating in the United Kingdom.
In 1991, the Committee of London and Scottish Bankers, formerly the Committee of London Clearing Bankers, was subsumed into the Association.
The British Bankers' Association archive also includes records of a number of other organisations including the London Clearing House, later known as the Bankers' Clearing House Limited, and the Committee of London Clearing Bankers which oversaw it.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the British Bankers' Association including minutes, accounts, papers relating to public relations, papers relating to bank employees, and papers relating to matters concerning banks such as taxation, legislation, inter-bank cooperation, foreign currency, investments, security and fraud, nationalisation, liquidity, bankruptcy and the European Economic Community (EEC).
Also includes printed extracts of proceedings of Association of the Bankers of London and Westminster (1792).
The British Bankers' Association archive also includes records of a number of other organisations including the London Clearing House, later known as the Bankers' Clearing House Limited, and the Committee of London Clearing Bankers which oversaw it.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
CLC/B/029-01: British Bankers' Association;
CLC/B/029-02: Bankers' Clearing House;
CLC/B/029-03: Central Association of Bankers;
CLC/B/029-04: Committee of London Clearing Bankers;
CLC/B/029-05: London Joint Stock Banks Committee.
CLC/B/029-06: Association of the Bankers of London and Westminster.
Conditions governing access:
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Access is restricted to all records under 30 years. Please contact LMA for further details
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009. Additional deposit received 2017.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011. Updated February 2018.