| Description | Contains papers relating to the Priam scheme: contingency planning for a sudden event which provokes widespread expectation of an imminent re-alignment of exchange rate parities, and consequent pressure on sterling (an event such as the devaluation of the French franc); and the Hecuba scheme: contingency planning for a floating exchange rate, including the effects of implementing a floating regime to British overseas banks and traders and to the gold market. Includes minutes of HM Treasury The Hecuba/Priam Group; and papers regarding disclosure of customers' business to HM Treasury, and sterling bank credit for the overseas sterling area. |