Banking as an emerging technology: Hoare's Bank, 1702 1742

Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth

Financial History Review, 2006, vol. 13, issue 02, pages 149-178

Abstract: We document the transition from goldsmith to banker in the case of Richard Hoare and his successors and examine the operation of the London loan market during the early eighteenth century. Analysis of the financial revolution in England has focused on changes in public debt management and the interest rates paid by the state. Much less is known about the evolution of the financial system providing credit to individual borrowers. We show how this progress took time because operating a deposit bank was new and different from being a goldsmith. Learning how to use the relatively new technology of deposit banking was crucial for the bank s success and survival.

Date: 2006
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