British Banks at the Edge

Dimitris N. Chorafas

Chapter 9 in Banks, Bankers, and Bankruptcies under Crisis, 2014, pp 173-192 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Aristophanes laughed at bankers and banking as the most pestilent of all trades, while others have called banking the second eldest profession (after prostitution) whose origins they have traced to ancient temples. Financial historians say that in all likelihood the first financiers were the Egibi family in Babylon that lived in the seventeenth century BC. Another hypothesis is that finance started with Pasion, an Athenian, in early fourth century BC.

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Banking; Labor Government; Credit Institution; Mortgage Lender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137436993_9

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