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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF BANKING

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF BANKING

Timeless axioms for bankers and investors.

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Mar 18, 2023
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“Though the principles of the banking trade may appear abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from these rules, in consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the bank which attempts it.”

- Adam Smith, The Wealth of…

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