Banks. Did you know ...?
word "bank" derives from italienescul "banco? It means' office, bank, bench "and was used by bankers in Florence during the Renaissance that we used to conclude transactions above a desk.
the oldest evidence of a banking activity dates from the years 350-325 BC? A coin dating from the period, wearing a meal graphics / bank full of coins was found in the Turkish city of Trabzon (then a Greek colony).
in just nine years, from 1998 to 2007, the cumulative assets of banks worldwide early 1000 increased by approximately 150%? Thus, if in 1998 the major banks worldwide 1000 owned assets worth just over 30 trillion dollars in 2007 the amount rose to 74.2 trillion dollars.
U.S. banks hold 14% of the total of 74.2 trillion dollars? Japanese banks have lost at the end of last millennium, about 11% of global share (from 21% in 1999 to 10% in 2007). Banks in EU territory with the largest part of assets first 1000 global banks: 53%, the largest share being awarded to Great Britain.
most banks in the world are in the U.S.? In late 2005, over 7,500 banking institutions doing business in the U.S. and in total they had over 75,000 branches. In comparison, Japan (the second largest banking power in the world after USA and UK before) and 129 counts in the same year in Romania are currently under site Romanian Banks Association, 41 banks (the number may be high).
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