Chapter 1. Introduction: The Origins and Fundamentals of Banking -- Chapter 2. The Medici Family: Bankers of the … Banking Champions (19th, 20th and early 21st Century) -- Chapter 10. Citibank: A National Champion Going Beyond Limits (20th …. Starting from the Knights Templar and ending with contemporary national banking champions, it presents several case studies …

banking houses. Invariably, the leaders derived additional benefits from the lending operations which did not accrue to the … profitability of these loans. A formal model based on informational asymmetries resulting from the segmentation of the banking …

liberal era of the Spanish banking system (1900-1914). These years were characterised by major qualitative and quantitative … changes in the banking industry including a sharp increase in the size of the system, in the number of firms, and in its … regional banking groups, like the Catalan, can be linked with its low productivity levels. In consequence, in the light of our …