Una aproximación al mundo del dinero en el Madrid isabelino: el Banco de Economías

Abstract

This article directs its attention to the phenomenon of private savings banks constituted in Madrid during the 1860s, especially to one of the most significant: the Banco de Economías. It intends to approach the mid-level of the budding banking system at that time, a level where you can find mutual insurance societies, bankers, moneylenders and other private capitalists, capable of making a network open to the adquisition of the local savings and the interest of other credit societies wich are situated at the apex of the banking world. The aim of this article is therefore to examine the generic characteristics of these establishments, and the particular qualities of the Banco de Economías, from its launch in 1860 until its crisis and disappearance during the years of «Sexenio Democrático».