bank
financial institution that accepts deposits
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Summary
bank draws 13,653 Wikipedia views per month (finance category, ranking #2 of 12).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: financial intermediary[2], credit institution[3], enterprise[4], depository institution[5], financial institution[6]
- Has use: financial services[7]
- Commons category: Banks[8]
- Industry: bank operations[9]
- Opposite of: non-bank[10]
- Unicode character: 🏦[11]
- Has part(s): securities account[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Banks[13]
- Commons gallery: Bank[14]
- OpenStreetMap tag: amenity=bank[15]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18], 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica[19], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[20], New International Encyclopedia[21], The New Student's Reference Work[22], Pax Leksikon[23], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[24]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox bank[25]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/banking[26]
- Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Bank[27], https://spec.edmcouncil.org/fibo/ontology/FBC/FunctionalEntities/FinancialServicesEntities/Bank[28]
- Different from: bank building[29]
- Properties for this type: P2627[30]
- Uses: bank building[31], bank branch[32]
- Practiced by: bank employee[33]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[34]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for bank include banknote[35], a genre[36]; Kotobank[37], an online encyclopedia[38], in Japan[39], founded in 2009[40]; and Bankova Street[41], a street[42], in Ukraine[43].
Why It Matters
bank has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] bank is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]
Entities named for bank include banknote[35], a genre[36]; Kotobank[37], an online encyclopedia[38], in Japan[39], founded in 2009[40]; and Bankova Street[41], a street[42], in Ukraine[43].