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Digital assets and currencies

Understand assets, networks and trading mechanics with sources you can check.

Fiat currencies

Financial centre

A financial centre (financial center in American English) or financial hub is a location with a significant concentration of commerce in financial services.

Banking

Fractional-reserve banking

Fractional-reserve banking is the system of banking under which banks that take deposits from the public keep only part of their deposit liabilities in liquid assets as a reserve, and lend a percentage to borrowers, thus increasing the money supply by the loaned amount. Bank reserves are held as cash in the bank or as balances in the bank's account at the central bank. Fractional-reserv

Banking

Free banking

Free banking is a monetary arrangement where banks are free to issue their own paper currency (banknotes) while also being subject to no special regulations beyond those applicable to most enterprises.