Bankers, financiers and Wall Street firms

J. Pierpont Morgan's life, drawn from family and business papers others had not used.

How bankers used depositors' money to control industry, from the Pujo inquiry.

J. P. Morgan from the Civil War to 1913: railroads, US Steel and rescues.

Wall Street in the 1960s: performance funds, conglomerates and the paperwork crisis.

The House of Morgan from Peabody's London firm to J. Pierpont Morgan's death in 1913.

The Medici bank from its 1397 founding to its 1494 collapse.

A telecom analyst on the conflicts of interest in research during the 1990s bubble.

How Banco Santander grew from a Spanish regional bank into a global one.

Jamie Dimon's career and how JPMorgan Chase came through the 2008 crisis.

Commissioned institutional history, written before the fall.

Contemporary reporting on the raiders, including his Phillips Petroleum fight.

The revisionist defence of high yield as a financing innovation.

The rival account, published months after Barbarians.

British view of Drexel; more interested in the instrument than the man.

The Robinson years, Shearson, and the boardroom unravelling.

The four-volume history of the world's oldest continuous financial centre.

How Big Bang handed the City's investment banks to foreign owners.

History of the private Wall Street houses, Salomon included

A single-volume history of Wall Street and its institutions.

How the integrated investment bank extracts its economics from clients.

The long institutional history, cotton broker to bankruptcy.

Memoir by the firm's longtime chairman 'Ace' Greenberg.

Ex-banker turned sociologist on organizational drift.

Commodity desks at banks and funds after the 2008 boom.

Authorised modern history of HSBC, the territory's dominant financial institution.

Barclays' thirty-year attempt to become a global investment bank.

How Milken's Drexel junk-bond desk financed the 1980s buyouts and hostile takeovers.

Life on Salomon Brothers' bond trading floor in the 1980s mortgage-bond boom.

The 1988 bidding war for RJR Nabisco, the largest leveraged buyout to that date.

The Morgan banks from 1830s London to J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley in the 1980s.

The inside story of Nomura, the Japanese securities house.

Collected 1980s finance essays

Two centuries of a Jewish banking family from Hamburg to London and New York.

Commissioned history, written long before the run.

Steve Ross's path from funeral homes and parking lots to the Time Warner merger.

Academic and broadly favorable.

Goldman Sachs to its 1999 IPO, with a focus on its partnership culture.

Authorised 150-year corporate history

Life as John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s youngest son, from Harvard to wartime intelligence.

How small investors can protect themselves from Wall Street's confusing practices.

Physicist to Goldman; the making of the volatility-surface era.

How managers and middlemen took value from the owners of American companies.

Pre-crisis; by a former AIG executive.

The history of Lazard Freres and its partners, from interviews and internal papers.

Goldman Sachs from Marcus Goldman's commercial paper to its 1999 public offering.

Siegmund Warburg, who fled Germany and founded S.G. Warburg in London.

Goldman Sachs from Marcus Goldman to the 2008 crisis, from internal documents.

Insider resignation memoir that began as an op-ed.

A trader's memoir of Wall Street's after-hours world of drugs, sex and commissions.

Insider memoir of the trading floor culture.

The Rothschild banks of five cities from 1798 to 1999, from the family archive.