The document discusses the history and evolution of money and banking systems. It begins by describing the barter system where goods and services are directly exchanged. It then outlines some limitations of barters systems that led to the development of monetary systems using coins made of precious metals. The document notes the risks of carrying coins which contributed to the introduction of paper money. It traces the origins of modern banking from goldsmiths who issued paper receipts for gold deposits and discusses key developments in banking in England and the US. The roles and functions of banks have expanded over time from basic lending and deposits to various digital banking services.
3. BARTER SYSTEM:
People exchange goods and service directly in
exchange of goods and service offered by
others.
4. People have bartered for
goods and services since
the dawn of civilization,
when currencies are
unstable or when there is
no common currency.
Example: A photographer
agreeing to photograph a
dentist's wedding pictures
in return for some dental
work of equal value.
7. To avoid the problems occurs in barter
system monetary system was introduce:
HISTORY OF MONEY
METAL COINS:
People use metal coins for transactions.
Unfortunately, gold dust, gold objects,
and other metals had to be weighed each
time they were "spent. So the People
began to shape the metals into
standardized sizes to establish fixed
values, this was the beginning of the use
of coins.
But in a "standard" coin, the face value of
the coin is worth as much as the metal in
it, the metal is worth less than the face
value.
8. Risk factor is involve i.e. people carry gold and
silver coins and there may be a risk of stolen these
coins.
Heavy weight is another drawback of metal coins
i.e. if people wants to buy a huge thing they should
have to carry heavy amount of money.
To avoid these obstacles paper money was
introduce.
9. The official currency, in the form
of banknotes, coins, etc, issued by a
government or other authority.
It is also called easy medium of exchange.
15. Banking starts from goldsmiths.
People deposit their gold to the
goldsmith then the Goldsmiths
would give receipts for the
deposits.
As more goldsmiths began to
issue these paper receipts, it
became possible to take a
receipt to any smith and cash it
in, even if this smith wasn't the
smith who originally wrote the
receipt.
16. The word bank is derived from the Italian
word Banco which means bench. In the
Middle Ages, Italians used to conduct their
commercial transactions while sitting on the
bench. Later, this very word banco
underwent changes and became bank. Now,
all the countries of the world have banking
systems.
17. In England, the
first bank was
started in the year
1825.
The first bank in
the U.S.A. was set
up in Philadelphia
in the year 1782.
18. As the time passes this goldsmith system is
then converted into modern banking system.
19. In the beginnings, Banks had only two
functions, namely to receive money and to
give loans on interest.
Nowadays, Banks serve many other purposes
such as giving credit cards and foreign
currency to people going abroad. Banks also
provide us the facility of lockers to keep our
valuable jewelry.