Quote Originally Posted by DesertEagle
True about the Templars. On the History-Int they had a templars special, and they said they had their huge reserves of money due to moneylending, and that in fact they did charge interest, but by using the loophole of calling it "rent," instead of interest. As in you are renting the possession of the money from me, same as you might rent the occupation of a house I own.
Pretty much like that, expects that they had chapter houses all over Christian-Europe, and it was dangerous to move around with bag full of money, so they gave the money to Templar chapter house and received somekind of note and code or something, so they could cash the same amount from any other chapter house.
They were actually first worldwide bank in world or something...