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A bank is a financial institution and a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities.

Bank, The Bank, or banking may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• DCI Banks, a British television crime drama, aired by ITV 2010-2016
• Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, a 1983 telemovie
• The Bank (1915 film), starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Bank (2001 film), starring David Wenham

Music

• "Bank", a 2017 song by Brockhampton from Saturation
• "Bank", a 2018 song by Lil Baby from Harder Than Ever

Other media

• Memory Banks (comic strip), a British comic strip
• Memory Bank (UK game show), a daytime game show which was shown on Five in the UK

Finance

• Central bank
• Mutual savings bank
• Piggy bank, a device for money saving
• Savings bank

Organizations

• BANK (art collective), a 1990s London art collective
• Bank (diaper bank), organizations created for the purpose of distributing free diapers to parents and caregivers unable to afford diapers
• Bank Street College of Education, a private graduate school for Early Childhood Education in New York, NY, U.S.

Places

• Bánk, a village and municipality in the comitat of Nógrád, Hungary
• Bank, Iran, a city in Bushehr Province, Iran
• The Bank, Cheshire, a location in England
• Bank junction, a major road junction in the City of London
• Bank Station (OC Transpo), a bus stop in Ottawa
• Bank Street (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada
• Bank–Monument station, a tube station in London
• Bankə, Azerbaijan
• Promysel Narimanova or Bank, Azerbaijan

Science and technology

Computing

• Data bank, a storage area for information in telecommunications
• Memory bank, a logical unit of storage

Biology and healthcare

• Blood bank
• Gene bank
• Ova bank
• Seed bank
• Sperm bank

Natural geography

• Bank (geography), a raised portion of seabed or sloping ground along the edge of a stream, river, or lake
• Ocean bank, a shallow area in a body of water

Transportation

• Bank engine, a railway locomotive attached to the rear of a train, usually to add haulage power over a short distance
• Bank or roll, in aircraft flight dynamics, a rotation of the vehicle about its longitudinal axis
  • Banked turn, a change of direction in which a vehicle inclines
• Cylinder bank, a single row of cylinders in an internal combustion engine

Sport

• Bank shot, a type of shot in:
  • Basketball
  • Cue sports
• Citizens Bank Park or The Bank, a baseball stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• M&T Bank Stadium or The Bank, an American football stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
• Bank of America Stadium or The Bank, an American football stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.

Other uses

• Bank (surname), a surname
• Bank (fortification), a type of earthwork used in field defenses or around early hillforts
• Bank paper, thin paper
• Food bank, non-profit, charitable organization that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with bank
• All pages with titles containing bank
• Banker (disambiguation)
• Banks (disambiguation)
• Banku (disambiguation)
• Cache (disambiguation)
• Embankment (disambiguation)
• Mitigation banking, or environmental mitigation, government-regulated environmental offset projects
• Phone bank (disambiguation)
• Ponding bank, a technique used in regenerative agriculture to prevent soil erosion
• Shore
• Storage (disambiguation)
• Vəng (disambiguation), several places in Azerbaijan
• East Bank (disambiguation)
• Left Bank (disambiguation)
• North Bank (disambiguation)
• Right Bank (disambiguation)
• South Bank (disambiguation)
• West Bank (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages