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The name Karum derives from the world’s oldest known trading concept. Some 5000 years ago, Mesopotamian commercial centers were called “karum” – vast marketplaces characterized by intensive buying and selling of goods and services. Historians believe that these karum were the location of the first credit transactions in human civilization.
