| Level | Item |
| Reference Number (click to see whole series/group) | C48/306 |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Title | DISCOUNT OFFICE FILE RELATING TO EXPORT CREDITS |
| Date | Sep 1919 - May 1960 |
| Admin History | The Bank's involvement arose out of its function as ECGD's banker and Discount Office's apparently from the need to establish the most effective way of marketing the paper generated by these credits in the form of bonds, promissory notes, bills, treasury bills and notes. The difficulties of marketing such paper through conventional channels, the bill market, the Stock Exchange or the clearers proved so intractable that considerable energy was devoted to the establishment of a marketing company which would be a subsidiary of ECGD. Despite encouragement from the Bank this failed to come to birth. |
| Description | C48/306-308 contain papers relating to credit facilities for exports granted by the United Kingdom (UK) government, through Export Credit Guarantee Department (ECGD), to certain countries in the late thirties.
A-K and general. The file contains papers on export credits in general, mainly ECGD and credits to Afghanistan, 1937-1942, and Iraq, 1937-1939. |
| Original Reference | 9v1 |