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Haute Banque refers to the network of private bankers which dominated international finance during much of the 19th century, exemplified by the Rothschild family and including numerous other European banking families. [1] Its influence declined in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as it became marginalized by the rise of universal banks and central banks.
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The expression is particularly associated with 19th-century Parisian banking networks, many of whose members were Protestant or Jewish. This use is not exclusive, however, and "Haute Banque" has been used to describe the age of European private banking hegemony more broadly. [2]
