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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Like most credit cards, this particular store card is sponsored by a big commercial bank.
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Ivan Illan, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Its commercial bank, which serves the lender’s more than 1.2 million business customers from startups to major corporations, has long held the potential to turbocharge profit if those customers could be persuaded to buy more products.
—Reuters, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
Far more likely to affect regular citizens is the raft of measures announced on Sept. 24 including rate cuts, making borrowing easier and freeing up commercial banks from having to hold large amounts of reserves.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
Jeffrey Korzenik, chief economist for one of the country's largest commercial banks and author of Untapped Talent: How Second Chance Hiring Works for Your Business and the Community, saw the problem coming.
—Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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Ivan Illan, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Its commercial bank, which serves the lender’s more than 1.2 million business customers from startups to major corporations, has long held the potential to turbocharge profit if those customers could be persuaded to buy more products.
—Reuters, CNN, 22 Oct. 2024
Far more likely to affect regular citizens is the raft of measures announced on Sept. 24 including rate cuts, making borrowing easier and freeing up commercial banks from having to hold large amounts of reserves.
—Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
Jeffrey Korzenik, chief economist for one of the country's largest commercial banks and author of Untapped Talent: How Second Chance Hiring Works for Your Business and the Community, saw the problem coming.
—Jim Vinoski, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Commercial bank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commercial%20bank. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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