When people talk about the richest individuals today, names like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or Mark Zuckerberg dominate the headlines. But there's one dynasty that has quietly amassed wealth, power, and ...

Patriarch Mayer Amschel Rothschild had such a tremendous impact on international banking that Forbes in 2005 named him to its list of 20 most Influential Businessmen. Rothschild died in 1812.

The Rothschild dynasty is, without a doubt, the pioneer of international finance. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the first of the family to open a bank, was honored by Forbes as the seventh most ...

The Rothschilds' story begins in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt, Germany, where Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the patriarch of the family, made his mark in the 18th century as a banker to the elite.

Meyer Amschel Rothschild Meyer Amschel Rothschild helped invent modern banking by introducing concepts like diversification, rapid communication, confidentiality and high volume. The superlatively ...

Amschel Rothschild, the man many believed would be the prestigious Rothschild Bank’s next leader, hanged himself in a Paris luxury hotel, a newspaper reported Thursday. Rothschild’s body was ...

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, original architect of the family fortune, was born in 1744. He lived above the family shop with up to 30 relatives in extremely cramped conditions.