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B1 Mittelstufe Englisch 6:10 Educational

Banking Explained – Money and Credit

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The international banking system is an enigma.

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There are more than 30.000 different banks world wide, and they hold unbelievable amounts of assets.

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The top 10 banks alone account for roughly 25 trillion US-Dollars.

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Today, banking can seem very complex, but originally, the idea was to make life simpler.

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11th century Italy was the centre of European trading.

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Merchants from all over the continent met to trade their goods, but there was one problem:

00:36

too many currencies in circulation.

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In Pisa, merchants had to deal with seven different types of coins

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and had to exchange their money constantly.

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This exchange business, which commonly took place outdoors benches,

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is where we get the word "bank" from;

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from the word "banco", Italian for "bench".

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The dangers of travelling, counterfeit money and the difficulty of getting a loan got people thinking.

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It was time for a new business model:

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home brokers started to give credit to businessmen,

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while genevese merchants developed cashless payments.

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Networks of banks spread all over Europe,

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handing out credit even to the church, or European kings.

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What about today ?

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