How have savings initiatives evolved over time?

Online investment company, True Potential Investor, has taken a step through time, looking at how savings initiative has changed over the years.

Did you know… that the first known building society formed for groups of individuals who were looking to help each other to buy property? Or that the Bank of England was founded towards the end of the 17^thcentury to fund the war effort against France? How about that the Amsterdam Stock Exchange was believed to be the world’s first stock market?

Take a look at the range of fascinating facts presented in the graphic below.