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:

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

    “A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)

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