Banking

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Banking refers to the business activity of accepting deposits and lending money to individuals, businesses, and other entities. Banks play a crucial role in the economy by providing various financial services, such as accepting deposits, providing loans, issuing credit cards, facilitating international trade, and offering investment and wealth management services. Banks may also engage in activities such as foreign exchange trading, underwriting securities, and insurance services. They are regulated by government agencies to ensure the safety and soundness of the financial system and protect consumers’ interests.

A continuation of ideas and notions of credit and lending that had their origins in the ancient world, banking in its modern sense emerged in the fourteenth century in the affluent cities of Renaissance Italy.

By managing checking or current accounts for customers, paying checks that customers have drawn on the bank, and collecting checks that have been placed into customers’ current accounts, banks serve as payment agents. The use of additional payment methods, such as Automated Clearing House (ACH), wire transfers or telegraphic transfers, EFTPOS, and automated teller machines, is also permitted by banks (ATMs).

A bank can generate revenue through a variety of various methods including interest, transaction fees, and financial counseling. The most important way has historically been to add interest to the capital that is lent to clients. The difference between the interest rates the bank pays on deposits and other sources of funding and the interest rates it charges for lending operations is how the bank makes money.

Commercial banks are currently subject to government regulation in the majority of jurisdictions and need a specific bank licence in order to function.

There are different types of Banking such as: