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2. History of banking - Wikipedia

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   At the time, banks were mainly in the cities and largely catered to wealthy customers. Rural citizens and the poor had no choice but to keep their funds at home or on their persons. The original Post Office Savings Bank was limited to deposits of £30 a year with a maximum balance of £150. Interest was paid at the rate of two and one-half ...

3. Home Credit - Wikipedia

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   Website. homecredit.net. Home Credit B.V. is an international non-bank financial institution founded in 1997 in the Czech Republic and headquartered in Netherlands. [4] [5] The company operates in 9 countries and focuses on installment lending primarily to people with little or no credit history. As of 30 June 2020 the Group has cumulatively ...

4. Morgan family - Wikipedia

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   The Morgan family is an American family and banking dynasty, which became prominent in the U.S. and throughout the world in the late 19th century and early 20th century.. Members of the family amassed an immense fortune over the generations, primarily through the work of Junius Spencer (J.S.) Morgan (1813-1890) and John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan Sr. (1837–19

5. Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing - Wikipedia

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   The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing [2] ( BOINC, pronounced / bɔɪŋk / – rhymes with "oink" [3]) is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing (a type of distributed computing ). [4] Developed originally to support SETI@home, [5] it became the platform for many other applications in areas as diverse as ...

6. Banking in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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   In ancient Rome there were a variety of officials tasked with banking. These were the argentarii, mensarii, coactores, and nummulari.The argentarii were money changers.The role of the mensarii was to help people through economic hardships, the coactores were hired to collect money and give it to their employer, and the nummulari minted and tested currency.

7. Free banking - Wikipedia

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   The Bank of England was the model for many later central banks, even outside the British Empire. Desire of national governments to collect seigniorage (revenue from issue) from note issues. Financial crises in some free banking systems that created demands to replace free banking with another system that advocates hoped would have fewer problems.