How to Use national bank in a Sentence

national bank

noun
  • Their rates are at least 3 percent better than some of the national banks.
    — Shawn Price, Orange County Register, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Bank of America is primed to charge $5 a month, the most of any national bank.
    — Mandy Major, Woman's Day, 30 Sep. 2011
  • The question in that case was whether Congress could charter a national bank.
    — Andrew Koppelman, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Dimon said he has long been bothered by the fact that there is not one true national bank, at least by his definition.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2021
  • Her sister lives with her daughter, a national bank employee.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But a few months later Hamilton raised the stakes once more with a proposal to create a national bank.
    — Susan Dunn, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Hynes had its own national bank, which was irresistible to a quartet of stick-up men in 1919.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In her time with the Bank of Commonwealth, Edwards was the first woman to serve on a national bank board.
    — Brian McCollum, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Dimon wanted Chase to be the first true national bank, with branches in all 48 contiguous states.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • At large national banks, CDs frequently pay only modest yields.
    — Eric Uhlfelder, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2018
  • And there could be serious issues with the state passing a law in which national banks and payment systems are involved, Horn said.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Blinken on Wednesday dedicated the embassy, a small office space on the fourth floor of the national bank building.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • The process of obtaining a national bank charter is slow and costly, but is one to which other financial upstarts are turning.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Once a national bank headquarters, the hotel combines its past and present beautifully.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2023
  • In the previous decade, only two national banks in WIsconsin had changed to state oversight.
    — Paul Gores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2017
  • By 23, British Robinson was in line to become a vice president at a major national bank.
    — Heather Wood Rudulph, Cosmopolitan, 5 Sep. 2016
  • The Federal Reserve is also closed on Labor Day, so most national banks will be closed.
    — Rachel E. Greenspan, Time, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Wells Fargo The bank scored a 77 among national banks and came in last place behind three other institutions.
    — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 7 Mar. 2024
  • A number of British businesses will be closed Monday, the day of the queen’s funeral, as part of a national bank holiday.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Getting through this very high regulatory hurdle now opens the door for Varo to become the biggest mobile-centric national bank.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2020
  • This differs significantly from a national bank charter, which allows a firm to offer consumer banking services and holds it to a much stricter level of oversight.
    — Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 7 Jan. 2026
  • One national bank discovered its employees using mouse movements to fake activity.
    — Raghu Para, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Russians have $11 billion in deposits in Switzerland, according to the Swiss national bank data.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2022
  • If confirmed to the OCC, Gould would lead the regulator charged with monitoring large national banks.
    — Pete Schroeder, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Town Bank is joining a growing list of Wisconsin and national banks in raising the minimum hourly wage for employees to $15.
    — Paul Gores, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2018
  • For instance, a professional who wants to become the CEO of a national bank will need a career focused on financial services.
    — Andrea Nicholas, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • While some rules limiting size still exist, in 1994, lawmakers passed legislation that paved the way for national banks that could hold customers’ deposits coast to coast.
    — Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • These standard savings accounts are generally offered by large national banks and credit unions and typically pay very little interest on the money in your account.
    — Tim Maxwell, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2025
  • What is less publicly acknowledged is the fact that some national banks also sit at the heart of party and patronage networks, providing political incentives to slow walk reforms.
    — Douglas Rediker, Foreign Affairs, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The state law, which bars national banks from collecting certain fees from customers directly, constrains the National Bank Act, the judge said in the ruling.
    — Kevin Bessler | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 Dec. 2024

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