# Deposits (capital contribution)

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## Definition

In general, the amounts of money entrusted to a bank - or, more rarely, to building and loan associations - by its customers in return for interest payments. - In a narrower sense, the acceptance of other people's money on sight and term accounts of the bank. - The sums or assets contributed by the participants when a company is founded. - In older documents also said for share capital. - See deposits, diet yield, own funds, deposit, silent, deposit interest, funding gap, borrowed funds, maturity transformation, principal deposit, core deposits, lending, compensatory, savings bonds. - Cf. 2010 Annual Report of BaFin, p 250 (the supervisory authority can rightly order immediate repayment in the case of unauthorized deposit business). 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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