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Dans le cadre des journées d'études « Decision Taking, Confidence and Risk Management in Banks in the 19th and 20th Century », organisées les 27 et 28 février 2015 à Essen (DE)  sur le thème , Daniel Velinov (IHMC) et Nadia Matringe (IHMC-ENPrESA) ont présenté une communication sur le thème :Financial IntermediationExtrait du compte-rendu des journées publié sur le site de H/SOZ/CULT :« Two early modern historians, DANIEL VELINOV and NADIA MATRINGE (Paris), problematized the conceptual term of ‘financial intermediation’. When looking at the Florentine Salviati banking house in Lyon and the La Bistrate banking house in Antwerp in the 16th and 17th century, they stated that with growing financial transactions in the early modern period intermediaries emerged but the narrative in the existing literature of intermediaries as middle men who connected demand and offer sides would be problematic. The two respective banking houses, as they showed, acted as agents and principals at the same time; they were not just middle men but players on the financial markets »