Articles address a broad range of issues of financial and monetary history, including technical and theoretical approaches, those derived from cultural and social perspectives, and the interrelations between politics and finance.

[2] Subsequent research on the early-modern period began in the 1950s/1960s, covering topics such as bills of exchange, the English financial revolution, and Italian merchant bankers.

Meanwhile, historians began to combine the study of economic and social phenomena through the methodologies founded by the Annales School in France.

Financial institutions and multinational banking require significant research into the role of cross-border or transnational histories.

According to its inaugural publication, the journal aims to promote closer collaboration between "academic practitioners and the practical world of banking and finance".