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:
“What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
“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)
“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)