Taula de canvi de Barcelona

It ceremonially started its operations on 20 January 1401, inside Barcelona's Llotja de Mar [ca].

The city appointed the Taula's taulers who worked on the table and its cashier for two-years fixed terms and paid their salaries.

Other Taula officers, including its regent, chief of deposits, credencer in charge of first bookings, and notary, were appointed for life.

It kept the deposits of the Generalitat, of the Barcelona Cathedral chapter, of religious institutions, of trade bodies, of military orders, and of the Aragonese monarchs.

In 1468, existing depositors were offered the option to convert to bonds of the city at 5 percent, or accept prolonged non-convertibility.

[3] Following the Siege of Barcelona (1713–14), the Taula continued to exist but in restricted form without giro banking, while the Banc was entirely separated from the city and brought under direct Spanish state control.

The bank was again established by the City Council on 28 February 1568 and operated until being finally closed by order of King Philip V in 1741.

[2]: 8  No comparable institutions appear to have existed in Castile until the creation of the Banco Nacional de San Carlos in 1782.