brian_gettler, Historical question! Does anyone know when institutions in the English-speaking world - corporations, government departments, etc - began opening bank accounts in their own names rather than entrusting funds to individual officeholders (who often mixed public and private funds in personal accounts)? I'm currently looking at 1830s-40s Canada where, if I'm understanding the admittedly sparse material correctly, this shift had not yet occurred. @histodons @econhist