Virtu Financial Inc.'s billionaire founder, Vinnie Viola, manipulated its byzantine capital structure to engineer a $1.1 ...
The Byzantines and the Venetians were masters of commerce, and that led to a devastating trade war between the two powers.
In the 300s, the emperor Constantine I converted to Christianity, and a new Byzantine capital was founded in his name: Constantinople, which heralded the beginning of Byzantium’s golden age.