Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-8914761-20150718012053/@comment-18812574-20150720003852

Perhaps it dpends on what you call "banking." We know that the Soul Society deals out kan as wages to the Shinigami, but I haven't really seen any theories on the economy of the Soul Society beyond that. Nor is economics my strong suit (and you better not start, Z) but I imagine the farther out from the Seireitei you go, the less they deal with actual currency and more with bartering/trading, especially in less-developed and/or more agricultural areas. But that's just my opinion.

What if this guy was the King over an entire trade-network system, as opposed to just a "bank chain" or something. (I'm not even sure how banks were run in Edo-era Japan, tbh. Something the history books don't go into great deal on. In fact, I'm don't even know if they HAD banks (???) and since Soul Society is based on that period, there you go. Although I suppose there were treasuries, lenders, gold exchangers, etc. etc.)