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banking

[bang-king] / ˈbæŋ kɪŋ /
NOUN
business carried on by a bank
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She shared more of her incredible story: She’d been one of the first women, let alone Chinese American women, in the fields of investment banking and venture capital in the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

For starters, the OCC issued preliminary conditional approvals for stablecoin banking services to five of our competitors nine months before granting conditional approval to our company.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

With drought episodes only expected to increase, operators are banking on better-suited vessels and greater intermodality, or the added use of trains and trucks.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

Monzo users have been left unable to use their card for payments or transfers following a technical problem with the banking service.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

I told her what we’d heard, the rumours about Hailsham students and deferrals; how we realised the rumours might not be accurate, and that we weren’t banking on anything.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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