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Med järnband och 'caute': Riksens ständers banks förtroendeskapande verksamhet 1668–1700
Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, History.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9261-0700
2024 (Swedish)In: Scandia, ISSN 0036-5483, Vol. 90, no 1, p. 11-39Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

I denna artikel undersöks Ständernas banks (senare Riksbanken) första tid som aktör på den svenska kreditmarknaden. Genom att gå bortom ständernas beslut om att grunda en bank visar denna artikel att bankens kredit inte ansågs vara fast och avslutad vid riksdagens slut 1 oktober 1668. Tvärtom var personliga relationer och ständiga bedömningar av trovärdighet i handlingar och uppträdanden avgörande. Banken arbetade kontinuerligt med sin kredit i samspel med konkurrenters och kunders önskemål i en ”public economy of information”. Bankens praxis för kreditgivning uppstod i dialog med det omgivande samhället; vad som teoretiskt var bäst för bankens kredit var inte nödvändigtvis kompatibelt med kundernas behov. Kredit och trovärdighet behövde upprätthållas i en pågående process för att banken skulle fungera. Till skillnad från vad som diskuterats av tidigare forskning angående tidigmodern materiell kultur verkar kredit i detta sammanhang inte ha uttryckts genom utformningen av bankbyggnadens fasad eller interiördekorationer. Viktigare var tegelvalv och säkra lås, bredden på diskarna, personalens sätt att dagligen möta klienter och kompetensen att ekonomisera bankens resurser och därigenom signalera trovärdighet.

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By going beyond the Swedish Riksdag’s decision to create Riksens ständers bank (the Bank of the Estates of the Realm), this article shows that the bank’s credit was not seen as fixed and set when the Riksdag was adjourned on October 1, 1668. On the contrary, in a credit market characterized by a weak institutional framework, personal relationships and assessing credibility on the basis of manners and appearances were essential for private and institutional actors alike. The bank constantly had to work on its credit withregard to competitors and customer wishes and based on the conception of credit in a ”public economy of information.” The bank’s practices in terms of building credit did not materialize in isolation but occurred in a constant dialogue with society at large. What was best for the bank’s credit in theory was not necessarily compatible with the customers’ needs, and the bank’s practices came to be defined by a relationship based on dialogue. Credit and credibility needed to be maintained in an ongoing process for the bank to function. Moreover, it does not seem as if credit was primarily expressed through the design of the bank building’s exterior or interior decorations such as when the Bank of England built its house in the eighteenth century. What mattered more were brick vaults and secure locks, the width of the counters, how the staff behaved in their daily encounters with the clients, and the ability to be frugal with the bank’s resources and thereby prove to be credible.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Scandia: Tidskrift for historisk forskning, Lund University , 2024. Vol. 90, no 1, p. 11-39
Keywords [sv]
bankverksamhet, kredit, tidigmodern, Sverige, trovärdighet
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History
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Historical Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-54089DOI: 10.47868/scandia.v90i1.26310ISI: 001405990900002OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-54089DiVA, id: diva2:1863633
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Swedish Research Council, 2018-01382Available from: 2024-05-31 Created: 2024-05-31 Last updated: 2026-04-13Bibliographically approved

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