January 2025
Intermediate to advanced
1086 pages
32h 56m
English
Debt finance and its regulation are hardly new: its practice stretches far back before the arrival of firms such as Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA (MPS) in 1472, though that is now the oldest operating bank. By 1795 bc Hammurabi, a Babylonian lawmaker, had already established a code of behaviour for money lenders and merchants to adhere to. ‘If the agent accept money from the merchant, but have a quarrel with the merchant (denying the receipt), then shall the merchant swear before God and witnesses that he has given this money to the agent, and the agent shall pay him three times the sum’, is one example of the ...
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