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 white-list program is limited by the incentives of commercial banks, which worry about developer defaults impacting their bottom line.
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Tom Hancock, Fortune Asia, 20 May 2024
GardaWorld and its competitors, among them Loomis and Brink’s, retrieve commercial bank customers’ cash in armored vehicles and bring it to facilities like the one in Sylmar, where it is organized and held on behalf of the financial institutions.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
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Tom Hancock, Fortune Asia, 20 May 2024
GardaWorld and its competitors, among them Loomis and Brink’s, retrieve commercial bank customers’ cash in armored vehicles and bring it to facilities like the one in Sylmar, where it is organized and held on behalf of the financial institutions.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
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“Commercial bank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commercial%20bank. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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