commercial bank
noun
: a bank organized chiefly to handle the everyday financial transactions of businesses (as through demand deposit accounts and short-term commercial loans)
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Bloomberg reported Monday, citing sources, that regulators told commercial banks in Jiangxi province not to settle their purchases of government bonds.
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
The ruling Palestinian Authority has been pushed to the brink of outright financial collapse; a June analysis by the International Crisis Group found that its debt to commercial banks and its arrears to its own pension fund has mounted to as much as $11 billion.
—Karen E. Young, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2024
Another payment rail, RTP, short for Real Time Payments, was launched in 2017 by The Clearing House, a private payment-system infrastructure owned by large commercial banks.
—Alana Semuels, TIME, 29 July 2024
Across the English Channel, the European Central Bank stopped paying interest on minimum reserves held by commercial banks at the beginning of September 2023.
—Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2024
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
The ruling Palestinian Authority has been pushed to the brink of outright financial collapse; a June analysis by the International Crisis Group found that its debt to commercial banks and its arrears to its own pension fund has mounted to as much as $11 billion.
—Karen E. Young, Foreign Affairs, 31 July 2024
Another payment rail, RTP, short for Real Time Payments, was launched in 2017 by The Clearing House, a private payment-system infrastructure owned by large commercial banks.
—Alana Semuels, TIME, 29 July 2024
Across the English Channel, the European Central Bank stopped paying interest on minimum reserves held by commercial banks at the beginning of September 2023.
—Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2024
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“Commercial bank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commercial%20bank. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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