The Australian financier behind the now collapsed finance group Greensill Capital pitched his business as an agent of “technological disruption” that aimed at “democratising capital”. But what Lex Greensill was actually offering was a new spin on a form of financing that dates back at least 4,000 years to Bronze Age Mesopotamia.
現在已倒閉的金融企業葛林希爾資本(Greensill Capital)背後的澳洲金融家萊克斯•葛林希爾(Lex Greensill)曾把他的企業宣傳爲一家「技術顛覆」者,旨在「讓資本民主化」。但實際上,他只不過是給一種擁有至少4000年曆史、可追溯到青銅時代美索不達米亞的融資形式換了一個新說法而已。
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