The Australian financier behind the now collapsed finance group Greensill Capital pitched his business as an agent of “technological disruption” that aimed at “democratising capital”. But what Lex Greensill was actually offering was a new spin on a form of financing that dates back at least 4,000 years to Bronze Age Mesopotamia.
现在已倒闭的金融企业格林希尔资本(Greensill Capital)背后的澳大利亚金融家莱克斯•格林希尔(Lex Greensill)曾把他的企业宣传为一家“技术颠覆”者，旨在“让资本民主化”。但实际上，他只不过是给一种拥有至少4000年历史、可追溯到青铜时代美索不达米亚的融资形式换了一个新说法而已。
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