Commercial_bank Commercial_bank

Commercial bank - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Broadcast, Industrial, Materialistic, Mercantile, Merchant, Newscast, Plug, Realistic, Rerun, Retail, Serial

A commercial bank is a type of financial intermediary and a type of bank. It raises funds by collecting deposits from businesses and consumers via checkable deposits, savings deposits, and time deposits. It makes loans to businesses and consumers. It also buys corporate bonds and government bonds. Its primary liabilities are deposits and primary assets are loans and bonds.

This is what people normally call a "bank". The term "commercial" was used to distinguish it from an Investment Bank. Since the two genres of banks no longer have to be separate companies, some have used the term "commercial bank" to refer to banks which focus mainly on companies.

See also

Example Usage of Commercial

Eye_on_Orlando: small world: The holidays come early on TV as the Walt Disney World Resort has released a new Commercial just i.. http://bit.ly/EefQl
felicilm9m: “Interesting, but of no Commercial value”: The problem with... http://tinyurl.com/ylxezak
7Steps2Wealth: Good news for Commercial real estate owners: Commercial real estate owners got some encouraging news during the.. http://bit.ly/4gVU4M
Copyright 2009 WordIQ.com - Privacy Policy  :: Terms of Use  :: Contact Us  :: About Us
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the this Wikipedia article.