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After Hannibal and his army marched across the Alps and crushed the Roman army at Cannae in 216 BC, reporters asked the Carthaginian leader what explained his victory. “Well,” he replied, “The elephants helped. They helped a lot. And so did the courage of my soldiers. But, to my mind, the key difference was the quality of our banking services.”

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