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# Exclusive insights on BIS operations Deep-dive historical research Uncovers hidden financial secrets Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World

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> 🏦 Unlock the secrets behind the world’s most secretive bank — before everyone else does!

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## Key Features

- • **Challenge the Status Quo:** Understand the murky legacy and ongoing influence of a bank shrouded in secrecy and controversy.
- • **Unmask the Financial Enigma:** Explore the shadowy origins of the Bank for International Settlements, revealing its controversial ties and secretive power.
- • **Elite Access to Global Banking Secrets:** Gain insider knowledge on the institution that quietly governs central banks worldwide.
- • **A Must-Read for Finance & History Buffs:** Ranked top 50 in Company Histories and praised for its compelling storytelling.
- • **Meticulously Researched & Authoritative:** Adam Lebor’s investigative narrative backed by extensive interviews and archival data.

## Overview

Tower of Basel offers a meticulously researched exposé on the Bank for International Settlements, tracing its controversial origins, secret alliances, and ongoing role as the central bank to central banks. With 4.5-star reviews and top rankings in business history, this book is essential for professionals seeking to understand the hidden forces shaping global finance.

## Description

Uncover the secretive history of the Bank for International Settlements, the world's most exclusive financial institution, through extensive research and interviews.

Review: WILL IT EVER GET OVER IT'S IGNOBLE START? - The author Adam Lebor's account of the establishment in 1930 of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) exposes it's shocking and unforgivable willingness to become Adolph Hitler's financial conduit and facilitator, enabling the pillaging of invaded states Gold and Currency Reserves. As thoroughly researched that the book so well demonstrates with the detailed history of BIS, no real clue is given as to the reason why the then Governor of the Bank of England, Montagu Norman should form such a dubious alliance and deep friendship with Hjalmar Schacht, a fanatical supporter of Hitler and the Nazi Party who served Hitler as President of the central state bank Reichsbank, and as Minister of Economics. It was this 'alliance' that was instrumental in BIS's formation and because of the unaccountable way it had been set up, it allowed the BIS to plunge into the murky world of giving assistance to a state that carried out such illegal, and barbarous acts against great swathes of humanity. It was unforgivable. After the war, and with widespread alarm at the role played by BIS as an adjunct to the Nazi Party, the Breton Woods Conference in 1944 decided that the BIS should be done away with, and yet somehow with much behind the scenes manoeuvring surprisingly involving John Maynard Keynes, the BIS was allowed to carry on. Since when, in order to obfuscate the past and to buff up it's image, BIS has 'morphed' into a hybrid mutation as the banker to Central Banks around the world, a self-acclaimed expert in the capital and liquidity ratios held by the commercial banking industry, and some fee earning financial regulatory and monitoring services. However, despite representing and deriving it's not inconsiderable income from Central Banks which are owned indirectly by billions of taxpayers worldwide, it hangs on to the veil of secrecy and almost total unaccountability that was adroitly inveigled by the founding fathers Messrs Montagu and Schacht. On the plus side BIS has an enviable reputation for lavishly entertaining the relative handful of the elite financiers and politicians given admittance to it's architecturally gauche offices in Basel. A very interesting and yet startling book, particularly the early years of BIS. Whether the BIS will ever be able to shake off it's image as 'Banker to The Gestapo' is doubtful other than through the passing of many more years and authors like Adam Lebor not publishing more books on the subject.
Review: Excellent book and service - Excellent book

## Features

- Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
- Product type: ABIS_BOOK
- Brand: PublicAffairs

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 66,928 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 44 in Company Histories 148 in Business & Economic History 254 in Professional Finance |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 527 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ WILL IT EVER GET OVER IT'S IGNOBLE START?
*by D***R on 10 April 2014*

The author Adam Lebor's account of the establishment in 1930 of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) exposes it's shocking and unforgivable willingness to become Adolph Hitler's financial conduit and facilitator, enabling the pillaging of invaded states Gold and Currency Reserves. As thoroughly researched that the book so well demonstrates with the detailed history of BIS, no real clue is given as to the reason why the then Governor of the Bank of England, Montagu Norman should form such a dubious alliance and deep friendship with Hjalmar Schacht, a fanatical supporter of Hitler and the Nazi Party who served Hitler as President of the central state bank Reichsbank, and as Minister of Economics. It was this 'alliance' that was instrumental in BIS's formation and because of the unaccountable way it had been set up, it allowed the BIS to plunge into the murky world of giving assistance to a state that carried out such illegal, and barbarous acts against great swathes of humanity. It was unforgivable. After the war, and with widespread alarm at the role played by BIS as an adjunct to the Nazi Party, the Breton Woods Conference in 1944 decided that the BIS should be done away with, and yet somehow with much behind the scenes manoeuvring surprisingly involving John Maynard Keynes, the BIS was allowed to carry on. Since when, in order to obfuscate the past and to buff up it's image, BIS has 'morphed' into a hybrid mutation as the banker to Central Banks around the world, a self-acclaimed expert in the capital and liquidity ratios held by the commercial banking industry, and some fee earning financial regulatory and monitoring services. However, despite representing and deriving it's not inconsiderable income from Central Banks which are owned indirectly by billions of taxpayers worldwide, it hangs on to the veil of secrecy and almost total unaccountability that was adroitly inveigled by the founding fathers Messrs Montagu and Schacht. On the plus side BIS has an enviable reputation for lavishly entertaining the relative handful of the elite financiers and politicians given admittance to it's architecturally gauche offices in Basel. A very interesting and yet startling book, particularly the early years of BIS. Whether the BIS will ever be able to shake off it's image as 'Banker to The Gestapo' is doubtful other than through the passing of many more years and authors like Adam Lebor not publishing more books on the subject.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent book and service
*by C***E on 9 June 2025*

Excellent book

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reads like fiction.
*by O***R on 31 January 2014*

I bought this because my work lets me know of the role that the BIS plays in modern financial policy making but I knew little of the institute itself. This is a history book not a financial one and its a good read, in fact if some of its core though historical characters were developed this could be misinterpreted as a good work of fiction. It started getting a bit anti Nazi in parts but that is its historical setting, it's a bit lacking in recent events but then it is subject to a 30 year secrecy rule. A good read worth buying.

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