Banking families in non Western countries

by howtoreadspaghetti

Europe has an incredibly large amount of banking families in its history. America has a fair amount of large financier families also. Where are the banking families from Asia back in ancient centuries? Or Russian banking families or Latin American banking families? The European ones get all the attention (which makes sense) and I have struggled to come across any information regarding non Western banking families.

Cedric_Hampton

I wrote about the English descendants of one such non-Western banking family, the Sassoons, in a recent response here.

The Sassoons were Jews from Baghdad and were known (along with the Kadoories and the Camondos) as "the Rothschilds of the East", having financial interests in the Middle East, India, and China. Two other sources to read about their history are:

Kaufman, Jonathan. The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China. New York: Penguin, 2020.

Jackson, Stanley. The Sassoons: Portrait of a Dynasty. New York: Random House, 1989.