Banking is as old as civilization itself. We know that Sumerian merchants extended loans to farmers more than four millennia ago. The same was true in ancient Egypt, Rome, India and China. Jesus overturned the tables of the money changers in Jerusalem’s temple, a favourite hangout for early loan sharks; incidentally, it is from these tables that we also get our word ‘bank’ – from the Italian
The second renaissance of money and banking
The second renaissance of money and banking
The second renaissance of money and banking
Banking is as old as civilization itself. We know that Sumerian merchants extended loans to farmers more than four millennia ago. The same was true in ancient Egypt, Rome, India and China. Jesus overturned the tables of the money changers in Jerusalem’s temple, a favourite hangout for early loan sharks; incidentally, it is from these tables that we also get our word ‘bank’ – from the Italian