Historical
23 entries
Hanseatic League Banking
The Hanseatic League, a confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northern Europe from th...
Templar Financial Network
The Knights Templar operated the most extensive financial network in medieval Europe. With commander...
Italian Renaissance Banking
Italian banking houses of the 14th and 15th centuries invented modern banking. The Medicis, Peruzzis...
Venetian Banking System
Venice developed Europes most sophisticated medieval banking system. The Banco di Rialto, founded in...
Banca Monte dei Paschi
The worlds oldest continuously operating bank, founded in Siena in 1472 as a charitable mount of pie...
Hamburger Bank
The Hamburger Bank was founded in 1619 in Hamburg, modeled on the Bank of Amsterdam. It was a public...
Wiener Stadtbank
The Wiener Stadtbank was founded in Vienna in 1703 as a municipal bank. It served the Habsburg monar...
Bank of North America
The first de facto central bank of the United States, chartered by the Continental Congress on Decem...
Fugger Bank Detail
The Fugger banking house of Augsburg dominated European finance in the early 16th century. Jakob Fug...
Bank of Sweden Detail
The Bank of Sweden, now Sveriges Riksbank, was founded by the Swedish parliament in 1668 after the f...
Rothschild Banking Dynasty
The Rothschild banking dynasty was founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt in the 1760s. Ma...
Warburg Banking Family
The Warburg family of Hamburg established one of the most influential Jewish banking dynasties. The ...
Community Banking Era
From the late 19th century through the mid 20th century, community banks were the backbone of Americ...
Bank of Alexandria
The Bank of Egypt, founded in 1820 by French interests, was the first bank in Egypt and one of the f...
Monte di Pieta
The Monte di Pieta, or mount of piety, was invented by Franciscan monks in Perugia in 1462 as a char...
Free Banking Scotland
Scotlands free banking era from 1716 to 1845 is considered by some economists as a model of successf...
Suffolk Bank System
The Suffolk Bank of Boston established the first bank clearinghouse system in the United States in 1...
Bank of Basel
The Bank of Basel was founded in 1840 to finance Basels silk ribbon industry. The bank was one of th...
Medici Bank Branches
The Medici Bank operated branches across Europe from 1397 to 1494. At its peak, the bank had 11 bran...
Wildcat Banking Michigan
Michigans wildcat banking era from 1837 to 1844 produced some of the most worthless banknotes in Ame...
Banking in Venice
Venice was Europes banking center during the medieval period. Venetian bankers developed the bill of...
Bank of Naples
The Banco di Napoli, founded in 1539 as the Monte della Pietà of Naples, became one of the most impo...
Genoese Banking
Genoese bankers rivaled and sometimes surpassed the Medicis during the Renaissance. Genoese banks fi...