How to Use national bank in a Sentence

national bank

noun
  • Bank of America is primed to charge $5 a month, the most of any national bank.
    Mandy Major, Woman's Day, 30 Sep. 2011
  • Scott: A little bit better than the big national banks, right?
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 23 May 2023
  • Hynes had its own national bank, which was irresistible to a quartet of stick-up men in 1919.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The question in that case was whether Congress could charter a national bank.
    Andrew Koppelman, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Varo, for example, had to put up $100 million in capital to gain a national bank charter in the U.S. and the process took three years.
    Maria Abreu, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • But a few months later Hamilton raised the stakes once more with a proposal to create a national bank.
    Susan Dunn, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Dimon said he has long been bothered by the fact that there is not one true national bank, at least by his definition.
    BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2021
  • Blinken on Wednesday dedicated the embassy, a small office space on the fourth floor of the national bank building.
    Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • Dimon wanted Chase to be the first true national bank, with branches in all 48 contiguous states.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • By 23, British Robinson was in line to become a vice president at a major national bank.
    Heather Wood Rudulph, Cosmopolitan, 5 Sep. 2016
  • By mid-2021, Chase was able to announce it became the first national bank to have a retail presence in every state except Alaska and Hawaii.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2022
  • A number of British businesses will be closed Monday, the day of the queen’s funeral, as part of a national bank holiday.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The Federal Reserve is also closed on Labor Day, so most national banks will be closed.
    Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 31 Aug. 2019
  • In the previous decade, only two national banks in WIsconsin had changed to state oversight.
    Paul Gores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The process of obtaining a national bank charter is slow and costly, but is one to which other financial upstarts are turning.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Town Bank is joining a growing list of Wisconsin and national banks in raising the minimum hourly wage for employees to $15.
    Paul Gores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2018
  • By 1922, its affiliate had bought all the shares in Haiti’s national bank and, with a guarantee from the American government that it would be repaid, won the chance to lend still more money to Haiti.
    New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • Russians have $11 billion in deposits in Switzerland, according to the Swiss national bank data.
    Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2022
  • While some rules limiting size still exist, in 1994, lawmakers passed legislation that paved the way for national banks that could hold customers’ deposits coast to coast.
    Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Getting through this very high regulatory hurdle now opens the door for Varo to become the biggest mobile-centric national bank.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Hamilton, who created a national bank and would become the first secretary of the treasury, moved with his mother to St. Croix, which was devastated by a hurricane in 1772.
    Allyson Hobbs, The Root, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Hamilton, considered by many to be a chief architect of the United States’ monetary policy, established the first national bank and appears on the $10 bill.
    Erin B. Logan, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • Once a national bank headquarters, the hotel combines its past and present beautifully.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2023
  • Last year, about 45% of new checking accounts were opened at the three national banks, even though those lenders had only 24% of U.S. branches, according to research by consulting firm Novantas.
    Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • At large national banks, CDs frequently pay only modest yields.
    Eric Uhlfelder, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2018
  • Some small businesses are struggling with big banks Many of the country's biggest national banks, like Bank of America, are already accepting hundreds of thousands of loans.
    Anne Sraders, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Once a national bank headquarters, the Riggs is one of D.C.’s newest hotels, filled with small bespoke touches that pay homage to its history, such as minibars designed like vintage safes.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Governments are among the biggest potential customers but usually do most of their business with national banks.
    Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2019
  • As Haitian distrust of the national bank deepened, investors from France and Germany scrambled to recast it under new European ownership.
    New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • But the same doesn’t necessarily hold for major national banks, whose stature might shield them from similar assumptions.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023

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