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Rothschild bond

Detail from a specimen for a Rothschild loan to Brazil, 1889. The finance secured by Rothschild bonds was one of the essential building blocks of the modern world. Capital raised by the bonds was put to many uses, from supporting newly independent nation states, to the provision of the infrastructure that delivered global economic development.


© 2008 The Rothschild Archive London.
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A brief history

Rothschild ventures have created history: they financed Governments during the Napoleonic wars, the Gold Rush, the purchase of the Suez Canal, the first railways and the quest for oil.

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