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The Taula de" target="_blank">de canvi of Barcelona, created in 1401 and still extant in diminished form in the 19th century, was a municipal bank in Barcelona that has been described as the first-ever central bank. A Taula de" target="_blank">de canvi ("Table of change" in Catalan), also Taula de" target="_blank">de cambi or simply Taula, was a type of municipal public bank that existed in the Crown of Aragon in the late Middle Ages and early modern period.
History
The first Taula de" target="_blank">de canvi was created following a request of the city of Barcelona's main governing body, the Consell de" target="_blank">de Cent, calling for the establishment of a public bank on 25 April 1400. It ceremonially started its operations on 20 January 1401, inside Barcelona's Llotja de" target="_blank">de Mar.: 3
= Structure and governance
=The Taula's charter, dated 1405 or 1412 depending on authors, is the oldest preserved public bank regulation. Its design remained essentially unchanged for 300 years until the early 18th century.: 197 The Taula was a fully-owned operation of the city with a city guarantee of its deposits, and there is no evidence that it had capital of its own. The city appointed the Taula's taulers who worked on the table and its cashier for two-years fixed terms and paid their salaries. Other Taula officers, including its regent, chief of deposits, credencer in charge of first bookings, and notary, were appointed for life.: 4 : 29 The Taula's coffers had six keys, of which two were held by each tauler and two by the city councillors. The Taula was also subject to frequent inspection by municipal auditors.: 5
In 1609, the city council created the Bank of the City of Barcelona (Banc de" target="_blank">de la Ciutat) as an independent department of the municipal administration, to accept lower-quality coins than were allowed under the Taula's regulation. In practice, that bank appears to have operated as an extension of the Taula rather than a separate let alone competing institution.
= Operations
=The Taula's objective was to provide an efficient and stable central deposit and giro transfer system, and, in its initial decades of operations, to provide funding to the city. From 1413 it also served as fiscal agent for the Generalitat of Catalonia.: 29
It accepted both sight deposits and term deposits, in coin or jewellery, from residents of the city or its immediate surrounding; deposits were transferable as long as that did not result in overdraft, thus the taula's characterization as an early central bank. Cheques were in use from the 1520s at the latest.: 200 The bank operated on its eponymous table, installed in Barcelona's Llotja de" target="_blank">de Mar and covered with a carpet decorated with the arms of Barcelona. It was open every working day from 8 to 10am.: 5
From its inception the Taula was systemically significant. Its oldest surviving book records over 500 individual accounts. It kept the deposits of the Generalitat, of the Barcelona Cathedral chapter, of religious institutions, of trade bodies, of military orders, and of the Aragonese monarchs.: 6
The Taula was granted a monopoly on certain types of deposits, e.g. those of minors. From 1446 to 1499 it also had a legal monopoly on the clearing of bills of exchange. It competed with private banks to attract deposits, but unlike these did not pay interest on sight deposits.: 30
The Taula suspended the convertibility of deposits in 1463-1468 during the Catalan Civil War, 1640-1653 during the Reapers' War, and 1706-1713 during the War of the Spanish Succession; in the two latter episodes the Banc de" target="_blank">de la Ciutat also suspended payments. In 1468, existing depositors were offered the option to convert to bonds of the city at 5 percent, or accept prolonged non-convertibility. After that restructuring and until the 17th century, lending to the city was prohibited. Following the Siege of Barcelona (1713–14), the Taula continued to exist but in restricted form without giro banking, while the Banc was entirely separated from the city and brought under direct Spanish state control. Another episode of payments suspension occurred in 1812. The Taula's remaining activities were gradually discontinued or taken over by other institutions. It was eventually absorbed by the Bank of Spain in 1853: 31 and stopped paying its last staff in 1865.: 200
Other Taules de" target="_blank">de canvi
= Valencia
=Several successive Taules de" target="_blank">de canvi were established in Valencia, respectively from 1408 to 1416 (or 1418),: 7 1519 to 1649 (Taula Nova), and 1649 to 1719 (Taula Novisima). The Taula of Valencia was a deposit bank and fiscal agent of the city.: 31
= Girona
=A royal document authorized the creation of a Taula de" target="_blank">de canvi in Girona on 23 January 1443. The bank was again established by the City Council on 28 February 1568 and operated until being finally closed by order of King Philip V in 1741.
= Other locales
=Taules de" target="_blank">de canvi were also created in Perpinyà (1404), Vic (1413, 1583), Tarragona (1420), Palma de" target="_blank">de Mallorca (1507), Lleida (1585), and Cervera (1599).: 32-33 A Taula de" target="_blank">de comunes depósitos also existed in Zaragoza from the 15th to the 18th centuries.: 8 No comparable institutions appear to have existed in Castile until the creation of the Banco Nacional de" target="_blank">de San Carlos in 1782.
See also
Gran Tavola
Bank of Saint George
Banco del Giro
Bank of Amsterdam
Hamburger Bank
List of central banks
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