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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Chinese commercial banks have a huge problem.
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Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
And the United States and its allies must fully sanction all of the ten largest Russian commercial banks—including Gazprombank, which handles energy transactions for the gas monopoly Gazprom.
—Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2022
The federal funds rate is the target interest rate at which commercial banks borrow and lend their extra reserves to one another overnight.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
The filing also details various financial agreements, including a new commercial bank mortgage loan facility and bond issuances.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
And the United States and its allies must fully sanction all of the ten largest Russian commercial banks—including Gazprombank, which handles energy transactions for the gas monopoly Gazprom.
—Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2022
The federal funds rate is the target interest rate at which commercial banks borrow and lend their extra reserves to one another overnight.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
The filing also details various financial agreements, including a new commercial bank mortgage loan facility and bond issuances.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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“Commercial bank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commercial%20bank. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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