How to Use savings bank in a Sentence

savings bank

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  • Over in the eastern city of Chemnitz, the nostalgia for Marx in the place that long bore his name led one savings bank to issue credit cards with a picture of the 23-foot-high Marx bust that still stands in the city.
    — Erik Kirschbaum, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • Their material, precious metal, was a store of value in an age when savings banks and IRAs didn’t exist.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2017
  • If a prospective loan doesn't fit Guardhill's criteria, Richardson might still be able to put together a deal with a local savings bank or a lender that serves high net-worth clients.
    — Sharon L. Lynch, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2017
  • So far, says Leishman, his customers have been treating the service like a savings bank with deposits—in the form of Bitcoin purchases—accounting for 97% of transactions.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 June 2020
  • For the rest of the banking system — a hodgepodge of smaller commercial banks, postal savings banks and other savings institutions — the central bank’s move frees up $31 billion.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 24 June 2018
  • Like other regional Spanish savings banks—known as cajas—the state rescued CajaSur, ousted the priests and engineered a sale.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 3 June 2018
  • Spencer Savings is a mutual savings bank, which means it’s jointly owned by depositors, not shareholders.
    — Anders Melin, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2018
  • Ultimately, having one Landesbank catering to the nation’s 380 or so savings banks — rather than half a dozen — is probably sufficient.
    — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Those figures include the performance of the company’s investment management arm and its federal savings bank, as well as its life insurance line.
    — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Landesbanken invest money for local savings banks (or Sparkassen) and have ventured out internationally and taken on more risk.
    — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Once a sleepy savings bank, this 132-year-old Massachusetts institution is emerging as a regional powerhouse.
    — Fortune, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Sberbank, which is the successor of the Soviet Union’s savings bank, is attempting to reposition itself as a technology company that can provide customers with services from taxis to telemedicine.
    — Anna Baraulina, Bloomberg.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Soon an economics professor at Morgan State University opened Baltimore’s first savings bank for black families.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 12 July 2018
  • For example, Germany has a network of almost 400 public savings banks; KfW, the state investment bank, has financed a significant portion of the country’s impressive green energy development.
    — David Dayen, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
  • And then there’s Western Massachusetts, home to the most eclectic mix of regional specialties, including educational services, savings banks, vegetable and melon farming, and freestanding emergency medical centers.
    — Evan Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2018

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