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Three years passed without a bank, and then the Senate passed essentially the same act again. This bank, the Banco della Piazza di Rialto, was a full-reserve bank guaranteed and inspected by the state that dealt only in deposits and transfers. Cheque service was added in 1593 with a law that required citizens to settle all bills of exchange at ...
The Banco del Giro on Rialto Square by Gabriele Bella (c.1780s), Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia. The Banco del Giro (Venetian: Banco del Ziro), also Banco Giro or Bancogiro, sometimes referred to in English as the Bank of Venice, was a public bank created by the Republic of Venice.
The Republic of Venice, sometimes mistakenly credited with establishing a Bank of Venice in the 12th century, did not formally create a public bank until 1587. However in the 13th and 14th centuries its Grain Office did a banking business that included both deposits and lending. [ 133 ]
There were other Black owned banks in Chicago at the time including the bank owned Jesse Binga who founded the first privately owned African-American bank in Chicago in 1908. The bank later became the Binga State Bank in 1921. The Douglass National Bank and the Binga State Bank became the two most prominent Black banks owned by and servicing ...
Jesse Binga (April 10, 1865 – June 13, 1950) was a prominent American businessman who founded the first privately owned African-American bank in Chicago. [1] Binga recalled coming to Chicago in the 1890s with $10 in his pocket. By the 1920s he was a bank president and major real estate owner.
The Field Building, also known as the LaSalle National Bank Building and Bank of America Building [1] is an art deco office building at 135 South LaSalle Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark February 9, 1934. [2]
540 West Madison, formerly known as ABN AMRO Plaza, is an office building located in the West Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The building was built for ABN AMRO, parent company of Chicago financial institution LaSalle Bank. To the east sits Citicorp Center building and to the south, residential-complex of Presidential Towers.
Chicago's rapid growth through the turn of the century coincided with a period following the Panic of 1907 described as the "Golden age of bank architecture"; A time in which many of America's historic banks were built, and with a certain grandeur sufficient to: "Signal to the banking customer the notion that their money would be safe and the ...