Colloquium: East Meets West: Banking, Commerce and Investment

Organised in 1999, in collaboration with the European Association of Banking and Financial History e.V. (EABH) and with the participation of the History Foundation (Tarih Vakfi), the East Meets West: Banking, Commerce and Investment Colloquium provided an opportunity for Turkish and foreign bankers and academics to discuss commerce, monetarization, public debt and foreign investments in the 19 th century Ottoman economy.