ABSTRACT
For a long time, the banking sector has figured among those who have entertained the closest of relations with education, literacy and written culture. Although banks are neither the inheritors of the Babylonian banking system, nor of the systems of Classical Greece or Ancient Rome, instead being descendants of medieval Lombardi exchange tables, it should be well noted that since Antiquity financial activities have nonetheless required the upkeep of written accounts. Banks also distinguished themselves on a level other than that of their expenditure on professional training. Professional training reached its golden era thanks to two measures: first, diplomas of various levels became formally qualifying, and second, training for them henceforth took place during work time. One most important change is that the payroll percentage which banks previously devoted towards training their various personnel categories has declined in comparison with what it represented during the 1980s.
