1. Openly Disruptive
Disruptive Diner – Alternative Transactions

2. Numbers evolved from a system of counting
token to keep accounts of personal wealth in
Ancient Mesopotamia (3400 BC).

3. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (1472, Italy) is
the oldest continuously operating bank in the
world.

4. An ad for banking from 1907

5. The purpose of banking in the U.S. is to serve
the convenience and needs of communities for
credit and deposit services.

6. Banking evolved from pawnbroking.

7. Usury has come to mean interest that exceeds a
norm or law…an amount not normal, reasonable,
or proper.

9. Usury – “he who lends expecting to get back
something more or better than he has loaned.”
Martin Luther

10. Bank: a table, bar, desk, bench, or counter.

11. “Banking is the facilitator of prosperity in the
community.” attr. Alexander Hamilton