History of banks from antiquity to today
The need to save and keep one’s money safe has always been felt, as well as the custom of borrowing sums of money. The bank was created precisely to perform these two functions: to keep savings on deposit; lending sums of money to be repaid, later, with a surcharge (what we now call interest).
Over the centuries, the History Of Banking has been characterized by continuous evolutions, also a consequence of the socio-cultural changes of each historical period.