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The history of banking began with the first prototype banks, that is, the merchants of the world, who gave grain loans to farmers and traders who carried goods between cities. This was around 2000 BCE in Assyria , India and Sumer .
The Historical Series of the Bank of Italy (Collana Storica della Banca d’Italia, or CSBI) is the foremost series of publications in Italian economic, monetary and financial history, launched by the Bank of Italy, the Italian central bank in 1989, and published first by Laterza until 2011, and, subsequently, by Marsilio Editori from 2012.
Rothbard, Murray N., History of Money and Banking in the United States.Full text (510 pages) in pdf format, A libertarian interpretation; Schweikart, Larry, ed. Banking and Finance to 1913 (1990), an encyclopedia with short articles by experts Schweikart, Larry, ed. Banking and Finance, 1913-1989 (1990), an encyclopedia with short articles by ...
The biggest companies in 1989 by market capitalization. 1. Industrial Bank of Japan: $104.3 billion. 2. Sumitomo Bank: $73.3 billion. 3. Fuji Bank: $69.4 billion. 4. Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank: $64.0 ...
Panic of 1837, a U.S. recession with bank failures, followed by a 5-year depression; Panic of 1847, started as a collapse of British financial markets associated with the end of the 1840s railway industry boom; Panic of 1857, a U.S. recession with bank failures; Indian economic crash of 1865
This is a list of banking crises. A banking crisis is a financial crisis that affects banking activity. Banking crises include bank runs , which affect single banks; banking panics, which affect many banks; and systemic banking crises, in which a country experiences many defaults and financial institutions and corporations face great ...
On This Day; BBC: On This Day; The New York Times: On This Day; Library of Congress: Today in History; History Channel (US): This Day in History; History Channel (UK): This Day in History; New Zealand Government: Today in New Zealand History Archived 2017-04-14 at the Wayback Machine; Computer History Museum: This Day in History
On this day in economic and financial history ... The President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States was established by federal charter on Feb. 25, 1791. It was the first ...