# Bank in old documents sometimes also bankality (bank, banking institution)

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## Definition

Any - enterprise, even in the guise of a one-person company, which - on financial markets - offers any services and - through whatever distribution channel: very broad colloquial term. Because of the legal protection of the term in Germany, see Section 39 (1) of the German Banking Act (KWG). - Building in which banking business is conducted (brick and mortar bank). - In the ECB's statistics, sometimes monetary financial institutions located outside the euro area; see the explanatory notes in the "Euro area statistics" section of the respective ECB Monthly Bulletin. - In the international statistics of the Bank for International Settlements, the term bank roughly corresponds to the term monetary financial institution. - See bank, mixed, bank scold, bank discounter, bank premises, banking system, banker, container banking, direct bank, money house, money temple, internet bank, financial services institution, financial institution, monetary, merchant bank, institute, internet bank, credit banks, credit institution, market entry cost, multichannel bank, name identity, oligocracy, online banking, prima house, role mix, banking, bogus bank, special bank, nonbar institution, underground banking. - Cf. ECB Monthly Report of May 2005, pp. 83 et seq. (banking sector in the euro area) as well as the respective annual report of BaFin (there also supervisory grouping of banks), Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report of September 2009, pp. 37 et seq. (earnings situation since 1999; overviews) and the respective September report on current data. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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