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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The federal funds rate is the target interest rate at which commercial banks borrow and lend their extra reserves to one another overnight.
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
The rate on savings accounts offered to the average customer of Bank of America, to choose a commercial bank at random, is 0.01% a year.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
The filing also details various financial agreements, including a surplus note issued by Vidalia Re and a revolving credit facility with a syndicate of commercial banks.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
Early on in the crisis, the Fed also extended huge loans to foreign commercial banks and central banks that needed dollar funding, obviating the need for the U.S. Treasury to supply them with dollars.
—Carmen Reinhart, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2018
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
The rate on savings accounts offered to the average customer of Bank of America, to choose a commercial bank at random, is 0.01% a year.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
The filing also details various financial agreements, including a surplus note issued by Vidalia Re and a revolving credit facility with a syndicate of commercial banks.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
Early on in the crisis, the Fed also extended huge loans to foreign commercial banks and central banks that needed dollar funding, obviating the need for the U.S. Treasury to supply them with dollars.
—Carmen Reinhart, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2018
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“Commercial bank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commercial%20bank. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.
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