How to Use financial institution in a Sentence

financial institution

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  • Closing the racial wealth gap won’t be easy, but one financial institution is betting on AI to help speed up the process.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The bank had to sell bonds at a loss to cover the withdrawals, leading to the largest failure of a U.S. financial institution since the height of the financial crisis.
    — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Left visible was the amount of each donation, the bank or financial institution of each donor and their ZIP codes.
    — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Stakhanovism’s limits In the summer of 2013, an intern at a major city financial institution, Moritz Erhardt, was found dead one morning in the shower of his flat.
    — Bogdan Costea, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Gooch, 78, remains in custody on charges of stealing or attempting to steal from a financial institution, jail records show.
    — Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Prosecutors did not name the financial institution, though that is the date of the call with Goldman Sachs that was previously reported by The Times.
    — Ben Protess, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Delinquent loans can be brought current by making up back payments and past due amounts, plus whatever fees the financial institution has levied.
    — Ashley Donohoe, Car and Driver, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Choose your account type Each financial institution sets different rules around who can sign up for what kind of savings accounts.
    — Kerri Anne Renzulli, wsj.com, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The office is required to investigate and give the financial institution 90 days to respond.
    — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 3 May 2024
  • All three are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud and five counts of theft of government property, the office said.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The financial institution sued Staley in March saying he should be held liable for any financial damages the bank would have to pay from lawsuits related to Epstein.
    — Chloe Atkins, NBC News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Jose Prado-Valero, 35, will serve 33 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to financial institution fraud.
    — Jade Thomas, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2024
  • Overdraft fees are charged when your financial institution determines that your checking account doesn’t have enough funds to cover an expense — but pays it anyway.
    — Teri Sforza, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Földes has interlaced their plots, with a focus on a trio of protagonists: two men who occupy neighboring cubicles at a financial institution, and the wife of one of them.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The clip was even shot in Paris, France, not the country where the bank is located...but all the media attention that having Madonna appear in an ad will certainly be an upside to this partnership for the financial institution.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Dear Amy: My mother gave me, through a reputable financial institution, a significant sum of money.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
  • And most builders or sellers won’t accept an offer without a buyer preapproval letter from a financial institution.
    — Cameron Sullivan, The Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Higher account fees Depending on the financial institution and investment choices, IRAs may have greater account fees than 401(k) plans.
    — Laxmi Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Morgan Stanley isn’t the only financial institution to suggest home prices will likely increase.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • These on-staff experts represent the top tier of the teams that make up most banks’ wealth management divisions—units that nearly every financial institution has described to shareholders on recent earnings calls as a future area of growth.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Not a single financial institution plans to reduce spending among 2,271 the executives surveyed, according to the report.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The financial institution, meanwhile, has accused the territory of having a close relationship with the disgraced financier.
    — Chloe Atkins, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In their 2008 white paper, bitcoin’s pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, outlined a vision for electronic cash that changes hands directly from person to person, under the control of no financial institution.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Be sure to contact the issuing financial institution to add a travel notification.
    — Janelle Holland, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2024
  • Ament cooperated with authorities and pleaded guilty last year to multiple felonies, including wire fraud, making a false statement to a financial institution and subscribing to a false tax return.
    — Adam Elmahrek, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Citigroup has grown into the nation's third-largest financial institution in part because its predecessors in the 1800s indirectly profited from slavery, the company acknowledged in a blog post this week.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 28 July 2023
  • This reportedly came to light when a Texas credit union raised concerns about suspicious transactions to another financial institution.
    — Adam Singer, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Tennessee, for example, enacted a law forbidding the state treasurer to do business with a financial institution that refuses to finance companies in the fossil fuel industry (even though the oil and gas industry is a minor player in the state).
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Likewise, Worldpay gains ongoing access to FIS’s financial institution clients, supporting its expansion in the banking sector.
    — Joe Cornell, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, regulators are taking over a second failing financial institution, Signature Bank of New York.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023

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