Raul Wildbolz-Gallego is a doctoral candidate at the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History and UniDistance Switzerland. His work focuses on the study of financial networks from the end of the 18th century to the first half of the 19th century. More specifically, his dissertation focuses on the study of the Occidental Swiss financial networks (mainly Geneva and Basel), which allowed their investors to place and diversify their capital in different types of investments in different places in Europe, thus increasing their capital in a place where there was a surplus of capital (i.e. with low interest rates). These networks were not only important for Swiss investors, but also had an important impact in other places, as they transformed the French public financial system.