Given that he was a member of the famously ascetic Franciscan order with his own reputation for detachment from worldly things, St. Bernardine of Siena (1380-1444) was remarkably insightful about ...

Money has shaped civilizations for centuries, but in Medieval Europe, it didn’t work the way we think today. The rise of banking, trade credit, and money changers transformed the economy from a simple ...

What is Ripple? Well, it is both a digital currency and a payments protocol, and it is the latter that has got people excited. Ripple has been hitting the news recently, with banks saying it has ...

The failed prince of supply-chain financing and his credulous creditors should have heeded the cautionary lessons of medieval banking about the dangers of mixing finance with politics. The collapse of ...