| Description | Correspondence and cables on exchange rates, gold movements and interest rates between the Bank (Montagu Collet Norman/Cecil Lubbock/Harry Arthur Siepmann) and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) (George Harrison), Bank of France (Moreau), Netherlands Bank (Vissering), Reichsbank (Hjalmar Schacht) and other Europeans. A meeting between Basil Gage Catterns, Siepmann and Fuchs of the Reichsbank in November 1928. Norman's visit to New York and Washington in January/February 1929, and Siepmann's visit to Amsterdam in March 1929. Folio 6 gives details of an early use of an outside bank for intervention in the foreign exchange market. The file also contains a dossier of notifications of bank rate changes. |