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Re:The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017) by ValentineC on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:01AM (#34065967)
You could name them, because I have no idea if you're referring to modern-day bankers, the lawyers who took over their premises, or some other organisation.
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Re:The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017) by kasey_junk on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:25AM (#34066309)
Almost certainly an anti-Semitic trope.

But perhaps they are referencing Huguenots: https://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/blog/huguenots-and-the-wo...

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Re:The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017) by twic on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:59AM (#34067693)
He can only mean the Templi Resurgentes Equites Synarchici. The less said of whom, the better.
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Re:The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017) by mherdeg on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:41PM (#34069315)
A distant predecessor of Tristero, no doubt.
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