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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That’s the interest one commercial bank charges another for uncollateralized overnight borrowing.
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Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
And it was intended—and worked very well—to structurally separate investment banks from commercial banks, from consumer banks.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
EnviosCuba is linked to GAESA, Cuba’s military-run business conglomerate, which controls many of the island’s five-star hotels, its largest port at Mariel, its top commercial bank, supermarkets, gas stations and remittance businesses.
—Vera Lucia Pappaterra, Miami Herald, 16 June 2026
Four Kenyan commercial banks — Credit Bank, Consolidated Bank, Development Bank of Kenya, and Access Bank Kenya — are actively scrambling to plug severe capital shortfalls after missing the Central Bank of Kenya’s strict minimum core capital deadline.
—Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 15 June 2026
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Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
And it was intended—and worked very well—to structurally separate investment banks from commercial banks, from consumer banks.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
EnviosCuba is linked to GAESA, Cuba’s military-run business conglomerate, which controls many of the island’s five-star hotels, its largest port at Mariel, its top commercial bank, supermarkets, gas stations and remittance businesses.
—Vera Lucia Pappaterra, Miami Herald, 16 June 2026
Four Kenyan commercial banks — Credit Bank, Consolidated Bank, Development Bank of Kenya, and Access Bank Kenya — are actively scrambling to plug severe capital shortfalls after missing the Central Bank of Kenya’s strict minimum core capital deadline.
—Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 15 June 2026
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“Commercial bank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commercial%20bank. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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