How to Use commercial bank in a Sentence

commercial bank

noun

• The commercial bank, among the 20 largest in the country, was caught in a free-fall bank run.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
• The trading desks of large commercial banks had nothing to do with the crash.
  — Norbert J. Michel, Fortune, 4 June 2018
• In the weeks since the failures, commercial banks have cut back on lending.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
• Angela Chao was also on the board of the Bank of China, a commercial bank, not the central bank.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• The third cause is that the cash sitting on the books of financial firms is largely held by a few big commercial banks.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• The first week of April, deposits at commercial banks rose slightly.
  — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Revenues in the private and commercial bank were up 3%, to €2.6 billion.
  — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• After a decade of steady growth, deposits in commercial banks have begun to shrink (see chart).
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• The banks have since become one of Vietnam’s largest commercial banks by assets.
  — Aniruddha Ghosal, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
• The Fed alone decides the size of its assets and liabilities, not the commercial banks.
  — WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
• The loans would come from commercial banks, which would lend as much as 12 weeks of revenue to small firms, according to a copy of the proposal obtained by The New York Times.
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• The macroeconomic climate is still tough for a lot of commercial banks.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024
• Dozens of protesters later moved to central Beirut, smashed the windows of a commercial bank and set fire near its metal gate.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2020
• As the foreign currency rolled in, the PBOC purchased it from commercial banks by crediting them in yuan.
  — John Greenwood, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2018
• The project will provide housing in the mid-price range, council members said, and resolve the nuisance posed by the vacant commercial bank building.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2019
• The central bank can buy or sell currency — or order commercial banks to do so — to dampen price movements.
  — CBS News, 5 Aug. 2019
• There’s a major commercial bank near me whose brick-and-mortar locations close at 4 p.m. on business days.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• The holding company, along with the consumer bank, will be based in Columbus, while the commercial bank will be headquartered in Detroit.
  — Hannah Levitt, Bloomberg.com, 14 Dec. 2020
• Smaller banks, not subject to the higher costs commercial banks face, are able to offer customers higher rates.
  — Kevin McAllister, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
• Our review found that each of the top 10 largest commercial banks have deployed chatbots as a component of their customer service.
  — John F. Wasik, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• British pound notes always hold their value, and while the round, 1-pound coins lost their legal status this week, they can still be deposited at many commercial banks.
  — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• In modern economies, most money takes the form of deposits in commercial banks, rather than the cash in circulation and the reserves determined by the central bank.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• The program allows firms with fewer than 500 employees to borrow ten weeks of business costs from commercial banks to keep their doors open.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 3 Apr. 2020
• There was no run by retail depositors (people like you and me) against commercial banks.
  — Robert Samuelson, Twin Cities, 26 June 2019
• For context, there are 4,706 commercial banks and savings institutions insured by the FDIC, the agency said last month.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The company was straddled with $391 million in debt owed to non-bank lenders that charge higher interest rates than commercial banks.
  — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 30 June 2023
• But since 2014, the ECB has imposed a negative rate — essentially, a charge — on such deposits to pressure commercial banks to lend more.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• Mason is one of the few Black executives working for a major commercial bank.
  — Chauncey Alcorn Cnn Business, CNN, 23 Sep. 2020
• The white-list program is limited by the incentives of commercial banks, which worry about developer defaults impacting their bottom line.
  — Tom Hancock, Fortune Asia, 20 May 2024
• Bloomberg reported Monday, citing sources, that regulators told commercial banks in Jiangxi province not to settle their purchases of government bonds.
  — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024