Banco del Giro

The Banco del Giro (Venetian: Banco del Ziro), also Banco Giro or Bancogiro, sometimes referred to in English as the Bank of Venice, was a public bank created by the Republic of Venice in 1619, which remained in activity until the end of the Republic in 1797.

The Banco del Giro has been described as "the likely first experiment with a purely fiduciary state-issued legal-tender money". It also provided the model for the 1675 reorganization of the banking operations of the Genoese Casa di San Giorgio into a single entity, the Banco di San Giorgio.

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