Our history

The success of the five founding Rothschild brothers lay in their closely synchronised business.

Having set up banking operations in Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna and Naples they bound themselves by contract to clear, defined objectives.  

They also created the fastest and safest courier network in Europe by which they exchanged market information on a daily basis. It proved to be a winning formula and soon positioned them as the best informed and most internationally effective banking group in the world.

Couriers, pigeon post, the telegraph, the telephone and digital communication: the Rothschild brothers and their descendants quickly embraced each new medium of communication to maintain their advantage.

Today, a global network of unparalleled market and industry knowledge remains at the core of our business.

To find out more about our history click through to the Rothschild timeline or visit the Rothschild Archive website.