Is there some form of standardized banking throughout the Realms? Even something localized among the three major cities of the Sword Coast (Neverwinter, Waterdeep, Baldur’s Gate)? If so, how are funds made available and account balances known? My players are asking. See the “Money Matters” chapter of the "Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster’s Forgotten Realms" sourcebook (no, I didn’t come up with that title!).
It covers temples offering banking, rollcoins, moneylenders, and manycoins businesses. (In some places, guilds also bank.)#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 22, 2020

@TheEdVerse If Elminster can go back and forth from our world and Forgotten Realms using his magic doesn't that mean the Weave is here as well? Or did he get stuck here until he learned how to access our world's magic (assuming we have it still)?

— RidianGray (@RidianG) July 4, 2020

1)
Elminster, being a Weave anchor, brings a long, tenuous strand of the Weave with him. He usually jaunts between Toril and Earth via existing gates (portals), and knows many ways back, so is never “stuck.”
He knows how to access magic on Earth, thanks to many… 2)
…visits and much experimenting.
If an Earth person went the other way, and happened to have the Gift (ability to wield the Art = arcane magic; not all do), they could experiment, and be trained, and so learn to work magic in the Realms. Safe handling comes slow.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 4, 2020

re-reading Jewel of Turmish from The Cities, the Country is portrayed so differently from how Jeff Grubb’s character in The Finder’s Stone talks of it. In your view, is it contradictory? And if so, which view is correct? Imagine multiple wives was problematic? Not contradictory, as no realm larger than a city-state in the Realms is monolithic; they all vary from place to place, from urban to backlands, and social class to social class.
Turmish is a mixed-societies-in-the-same-country that's changing rapidly before our eyes.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 7, 2020