Thank you for taking the time to visit the BankINTRODUCTIONS.com (BankINTRO.com) web site. As President & Founder, I welcome you to BankINTRO.com. The vision for creating this web site came about over the last 20 years witnessing the widespread economic calamity that have struck many parts of this world which has greatly affected the financial stability for tens of millions of people. It seems that government corruption, regional downward economic spirals, economic protests marches and currency devaluations are an everyday occurrence now.

One only has to take a quick look at previous episodes of currency and economic instability such as Argentina (year 2000-02) where the middle class got wiped out overnight as the peso crashed and banks became insolvent. One has to ask, could this not happen in my own country?

Since year 2000, the almighty US-dollar (USD) has crashed in value in relation to the Euroland euro (EUR) down 55.5 percent (October 2000 to November 2007) and to gold bullion from an exchange valuation of 264 USD/ounce (year 2000) to 942 USD/ounce (January 30, 2008 intra-day). The middle class of the richest nation on earth is now threatened with a reduced standard of living due to the silent US-dollar crash. Take notice, currency valuations can greatly impact your livelihood. In Canada, recent massive currency appreciation (year 2002-07) has sideswiped the manufacturing heartland of the country resulting in over 200 thousand jobs eliminated. Be aware, large currency depreciations and/or appreciations can greatly impact your quality of life and finances.

Throughout history, several countries small and large have experienced system wide banking collapses. Millions of people have had their lives destroyed financially from bank failures wiping out their deposits and investments. Bank failures today remain a rare dark reality, one only has to look at the United Kingdom where UK based Northern Rock bank was partially bailed out by the Bank of England during fall 2007.

Even today, a too often repetitive pattern is occurring with currency devaluations eroding the purchasing power of innocent citizens within many nations. The world has witnessed hyperinflationary meltdowns in numerous national currencies, remember Weimar Germany in the 1920’s or Brazil in the 1980’s or countries like Turkmenistan in the 1990’s. These catastrophic currency collapses may indeed occur again. Some credible thinkers believe that history repeats itself.

During periods of time of great instability, national currencies can go in and out of fashion relatively quickly. Over the last 200 years, Germany alone for money use has had the thaler, the gulden, the mark, the rentenmark, the reichsmark, the deutschemark and now finally the euro as their new national currency. Currency crashes destroy lives. In the early 1920’s, the German mark was debased to its value was essentially worthless equivalent to four one-billionths to the US-dollar. A loaf of bread in Germany at that time cost 100 million marks.

Currency in the form of paper banknotes was first introduced by the Chinese over 1,000 years ago. And they too experienced mass inflation! Paper money in Persia (now known as ‘Iran’) around the year 1300 resulted in the collapse of their economy and export trade. During the 19th century, France’s assignat currency was debased. Paper money at times is also highly vulnerable to counterfeiting particularly during times of war, more recently in Afghanistan (2001) and in Argentina during the Falkland’s war in the early 1980’s. The future of fiat paper money is still an unknown, but here at BankINTRO.com we are pleased to help introduce two new Internet gold-based currencies as use for money. Feel free to click the banner adds for both e-Gold and GoldMoney for further details on our currency index.

History has shown that currency crashes are indeed repetitive events and may very well continue to take place in the future. Responsible fiscal management by government creating an environment for economic stability and growth are key building blocks for nations to advance forward. If governments provide weak leadership mixed with incompetent decision making and corruption, economic instability may take hold. This may ultimately result in a weak banking system for a nation, and the victims quite often are many. The Japanese banking crisis of the 1920’s led Japan to fascism, resulting in the death of millions during World War II. Weak banking systems and faltering economies struck other nations during the global depression of the 1930’s with horrific outcomes, particularly Germany.

Our mission at BankINTRO.com is simple, to help you protect and preserve your wealth. Consider BankINTRO.com your warning signal and safety check. The lighthouse that helps guide the ship safely into harbor from storm at sea. Visit BankINTRO.com often to stay at the forefront of macroeconomic and currency developments that may impact your lives. Although my personal work experience evolved around providing bank introductions for clients obtaining financial services from Canadian banks and other financial intermediaries for the last 17 years, it is the development of the Internet that provided the foundation for BankINTRO.com to exist in this new global economic arena.

The BankINTRO.com consists of a growing group of professional research analysts and bank introduction specialists. Our expertise is in international finance, macroeconomics and banking. BankINTRO.com provides international bank introductions and consulting services to a growing worldwide clientele. At BankINTRO.com, we diligently work hard and seek to continually improve our finance/economic models to assist in our evaluations. It is our thorough research into currency and banking issues that helps make BankINTRO.com your Internet leader for global banking information. The firm continually consults with analysts, economists who specialize in macroeconomics & international business along with other leading thinkers in finance to help formulate a clearer picture. It is this knowledge of risk management, the economic knowledge and data to identify endangered banks and currencies that BankINTRO.com seeks to successfully discover.

Now in this new virtual world, information is widespread and available to all with access to the Internet. No longer is it just the wealthy and those with access to privileged personal connections. Now, anyone with access to the Internet can make smart global banking decisions to their advantage, thanks to this new medium of disseminating information and knowledge. The Internet is one of the most profound changes the world has experienced since the invention of the movable type printing press for mass printing by German goldsmith Johann Gutenberg in the year 1455. The Internet now gives the average citizen great power – decentralizing economic power and giving it to you instead of a corrupt government.

Today, globalization has integrated the world economically closer than ever before. The decisions and economic events in one part of the world can vastly affect others far away. Now, monies can be wired or transferred anywhere throughout the world at a tremendous speed literally at the click of a computer button. Now, each of your individual economic decisions will hold your bankers and government officials accountable and responsible for their actions. If they do a poor job, you now have the ability to establish banking relationships in other jurisdictions and maintain your monies in sound currencies of the day**. Those banks and currencies that are managed well will now earn your individual trust and be further rewarded.

This new virtual economy is taking down borders and no longer will governments and their banking systems be able to command the capital of their citizens in the same manner as they use to. The Internet will see the birth of new virtual global banks, a shift towards online banking and brokerage thus destroying the old regional banking environment in favor of a new global banking spectrum for all citizens around the world to participate in. The speed at which information is being transmitted to you will result in a major economic transformation now unprecedented in history. The future of the Internet holds exciting times and opportunities especially for people who wish to take action and protect their families with smart global banking strategies. BankINTRO.com looks forward to providing a constructive role in this new information era of global banking and personal finance.

As a finance graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, I feel confident that I can lead the BankINTRO.com team into this new exciting realm of the Internet to make BankINTRO.com a success. On behalf of the staff at BankINTRO.com, thank you for your participation and we welcome any questions or requests that you may have.

Sincerely,

BankINTRODUCTIONS.com
Matt SJ Bell, B.Com
Email: mbell@BankINTRODUCTIONS.com

**Each country has their own laws & regulations for the movement of monies and establishment of foreign banking relationships. Please consult a tax and legal specialist for your own specific situation.