8 sentences with “bankers”

To raise money for these wars, private bankers founded the Bank of England in 1694.

The Third Estate was simply everyone else, from wealthy bankers and untitled merchants to the urban poor and landless peasants.

Emerging from the obscurity of a resolutely non-noble past, the Medici eventually became the papacy's official bankers, acquiring great wealth as a result.

As transporters, traders and bankers for the crusading expeditions, it was the northern Italians who reaped the greatest financial benefit from the invasions.

Of all social classes, bankers in particular were despised by traditional elites as they not only produced nothing themselves, but (apparently) profited from the wealth of others.

Likewise, Jews found that they were generally better off in Muslim lands than in Christian kingdoms because of their safety from official persecution. Jews became vital scholars, bankers and merchants throughout the caliphate.

The stigma associated with usury remained, but bankers (including the Medici family who came to completely dominate Florentine politics in the 15th century) became so wealthy that the social and religious stigma alone was not enough to prevent the spread of the practice.

Taking advantage of the fragmentation of the Church during the time of the Babylonian captivity and the Great Western Schism, Italian bankers also came to charge interest on loans, becoming the first Christians to defy the Church's prohibition on "usury" on a continuous and regular basis.