Meaning

1 senses
  1. A bank created to specialize in the ownership of defaulted loans and their collection.

    Bad Bank

Translations

1 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
bank specializing in bad credits:

Origin

Possibly derived from a usage by Walter Bagehot in Lombard Street: "The cardinal maxim is,

Possibly derived from a usage by Walter Bagehot in Lombard Street: "The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good bank."

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Forms

plural: bad banks
Singularbad bank
Pluralbad banks

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
collection bank

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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