"Gianni Zonin, an Italian bank chairman and wine producer, is proposing that banks accept expensive wines and legs of prosciutto as collateral on loans to producers....'The Italian bank Credito Emiliano has long stored hundreds of thousands of parmesan wheels, worth about 300 euros each, in warehouses as collateral while they age.'"
Planet Money: Loan Collateral, Italian Style
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