commercial bank

noun

1. a bank specializing in checking accounts and short-term loans.

commercial bank

noun

1. a bank primarily engaged in making short-term loans from funds deposited in current accounts

Word History and Origins

Origin of commercial bank¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

That in turn reduces payments to commercial banks and would be seen by them as a bank tax in all but name.

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U.S. commercial banks may also be hoarding liquidity, and not lending in out in the repo market, to avoid recognizing around $400 billion in unrealized securities losses, according to Bank of America data.

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In addition to Ripple, Coinbase and the U.K. payments company Wise, other applicants for trust charters include Sony Bank, a Japanese commercial bank whose parent company is partially owned by the electronics and entertainment conglomerate.

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Now, would the Fed buying bonds to manage the rate at which it lends to commercial banks be called QE?

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He describes the permanently larger balance sheet as a technocratic necessity to accommodate commercial banks’ demand for reserve deposits at the Fed—the so-called ample reserves regime introduced after 2008.

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