Bank

Bank

A bank is a financial institution and a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities, either directly by loaning or indirectly through capital markets. A bank is the connection between customers that have capital deficits and customers with capital surpluses.

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Famous quotes containing the word bank:

    “We bank over Boston. I am safe. I put on my hat.
    I am almost someone going home. The story has ended.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,
    Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.”
    —Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)