| Description | Includes papers relating to the work of the IMM in Chicago, set up in 1972, as a market for currency futures. Also includes: copy of the inaugural R A O Bridge memorial lecture given by Gordon Richardson, governor of the Bank of England, 22 January 1980; Bank letters to the Treasury (HMT) commenting on a minute on the powers to close the gold and foreign exchange markets; copy of the FOREX Association newsletter February 1980; a Bank paper, dated June 1980 outlining the origin, membership and work of the IMM. |