He does so, partly to record that the decline and eventual collapse of the Medici bank had little impact on the banking system as a whole.

他这样说，某种程度上是因为历史记载：美第奇家族银行的衰落及最终崩溃对整个银行体系本身影响甚少。

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After Cosimo's death in 1464, the Medici bank went downhill, though his descendants became ever more entrenched in power in Florence.

Cosimo死于1464年，虽然他的子孙们在弗洛伦萨的地位变得愈发不可动摇，梅第奇银行还是走了下坡路。

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Picard says she established Bank Medici in Austria as a mechanism for shoveling investor money into the Ponzi scheme.

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Other defendants named in the suit include European banks Unicredit and Bank Medici.

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Most of the Medici bank's lending was to royalty, to finance military campaigns or lavish princely lifestyles.

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