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.

Famous quotes containing the word bank:

“What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)

“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

“It was like passing a boundary to dive
Into the sun-filled water, brightly leafed
And limbed and lighted out from bank to bank.
That’s how the stars shine during the day.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)