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Commercial banking
Question | Answer |
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Banks lend savers’ deposits | to people who need to borrow money. |
They also create credit by | lending the same original deposit several times. |
How much credit banks can create | depends on the reserve requirements. |
Before lending money, | banks have to assess the risk involved. |
The interest rate on a loan | depends on how risky it is for the bank to lend the money. |
Banks always need liquidity, | so they can’t lend all their money in loans with long maturities. |