Eiji Hotori is Professor of Japanese Economic History at the Yokohama National University. He is also Councilor of the Socio-Economic History Society in Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Tokyo. His research interests are in the domestic and comparative history of commercial banking, financial elites, and banking supervision.Mikael Wendschlag is Researcher and Lecturer at the Department for Economic History at Uppsala University, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Linköping University. His research concerns financial supervision, financial elites and white-collar crime in history.Thibaud Giddey is Postdoctoral Research Associate of the Global Correspondent Banking ERC-project at the University of Oxford. He previously held visiting positions at Uppsala University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and City University London. He obtained his Ph.D. in arts (history) at the University of Lausanne in 2017. His research interests include the history of banking supervision, financial scandals, the development of political and financial elites, comparative public policies, and the history of white-collar crime.
