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Every article on Helvetica Register, arranged by group: the general articles first, then each of the five books on Zurich, Zug, Geneva, Basel and Lugano with its parts in the order of the book.

General

Zurich as an International Financial Centre

Origins: the Guild City and Its Merchants (to 1519)

Zwingli, the Reformation and the Moral Economy of Capital

From Merchant Capital to Banking (1600–1848)

The Age of Alfred Escher (1848–1914)

The Insurance and Reinsurance Hub

The Twentieth Century: Neutrality, Gold and the “Gnomes”

The Big Banks: Rise, Crisis and Consolidation

Capital Markets, Asset Management and Private Banking

Law, Courts, Enforcement and Compliance

Crypto-Assets and Digital Assets, Fintech and Technology

The German-Speaking Hub: Zurich and the DACH Region

Zurich 2035

Zug: The Making of a Global Hub

Introduction

Origins: From Rural Commonwealth to Industrial Canton

The Tax Turn: From Crisis Measure to Business Model

The Headquarters Economy

Commodity Trading I: History, Actors and Weight

Commodity Trading II: Financing, Integrity and Sanctions

Wealth and Private Clients

Crypto Valley

Regulatory Framework

Zug and the East

English as Infrastructure

Zug 2035

Geneva as an International Financial Centre

Introduction

Geneva before the Reformation: a city of fairs and exchange

Calvin and the moral economy of credit

The Refuge and the Protestant Bank (seventeenth to eighteenth centuries)

The birth of modern Geneva private banking (1815-1945)

Contemporary Geneva private banking (since 1945)

International Geneva and finance

Geneva, capital of commodity trading

Financing, securing, controlling: the risks of commodity trading

Geneva and Africa

The French language as infrastructure

Horizon 2035: the challenges facing the financial centre

Appendices

Basel as an International Financial Centre

Introduction

Origins: The Rhine Knee and the Making of a Commercial City

Humanism, Printing and Reformation

Merchants, the "Daig" and the World (17th–19th Centuries)

Industrialisation, Banking and Insurance (1833–1945)

Private Banking and the Regulatory Framework Today

International Basel: the BIS and the Global Standard Setters

Life Sciences as a Financial Pillar

The Dreiland: Rhine, Trade, Fairs and Art

Insurance, Reinsurance and Risk

Language, Border and Identity

Scenarios for 2035

Annexes: chronology, glossary and statistical reference points

Lugano as an International Financial Centre

Introduction

Before the Canton: Lakes, Passes and Lombard Commerce (to 1798)

Faith, Exile and Credit: Reformation and Counter-Reformation

The Young Canton: From 1798 to the First World War

The Rise of the Third Financial Centre (1914-1990)

Private Banking and Wealth Management Today

Lugano as a Commodity Trading Hub

Trade Finance, Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering and Transparency

Lugano and Italy: The Lombard Hinterland

Digital Lugano: Plan ₿, Kryptowerte und Digital Assets and Fintech

The Italian Language as Financial Infrastructure

Lugano 2035

Annex: chronology of Lugano and Ticino as a financial centre

Annex: glossary of Italian, English and German terms