How to Use nonbank in a Sentence

nonbank

noun
  • There is a second point for the nonbank market.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • What’s the difference between a bank lender and a nonbank lender?
    — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In sturdy financial systems, nonbanks help fill gaps left by banks.
    — Anjani Trivedi, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Stronger players—both banks and nonbanks—have been picking up servicing rights from weaker lenders that need to raise cash.
    — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
  • As early adopters, nonbank lenders using this tech can gain an edge over banks that have been slower to adopt AI.
    — Marius Silvasan, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Banks have sought to distance themselves from their less regulated nonbank rivals.
    — Katanga Johnson, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Business borrowers are more likely to seek business loans, lines of credit, and cash advances at large or small banks than at nonbank lenders.
    — Rohit Arora, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • Underbanked is when households have an account with a bank or credit union but still use nonbank products for most of their financial needs.
    — Medora Lee, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The two biggest nonbank mortgage lenders finished out last year with their first quarterly losses since going public.
    — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • In the last decade, insurance companies have fueled the rise of nonbank lenders, handing them more influence over vast pools of cash.
    — Katanga Johnson, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
  • This is where nonbank, private capital sources provide real value.
    — Chris Scharman, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • The law currently bars public nonbank companies from getting in on the action but still allows private firms to do so.
    — Julia Shapero, The Hill, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Synapse, a banking software company, helped connect online nonbank lenders with licensed banks.
    — Chris Perry, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Many nonbank lenders, especially smaller ones, had to shut down after the Fed’s last round of rate increases.
    — Orla McCaffrey, WSJ, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Canada has repeatedly tightened rules on banks, only for borrowers to turn to nonbanks.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Before Rocket’s blastoff, shares of nonbank mortgage lenders had done little to impress investors in recent months.
    — Orla McCaffrey, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Loss of market share and profitable sources of income has weakened banks, and consumers are hurt by being driven to more expensive nonbank lenders.
    — William M. Isaac and, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Private credit, also known as direct lending, is a catch-all term for lending done by nonbank institutions.
    — Hugh Son, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Treasury itself uses the same method to transfer funds — as do a growing number of nonbanks, which banks have warned could also expose the systems to risk.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 26 June 2026
  • Many auto lenders, including banks, nonbanks and the finance arms of car manufacturers, have been offering more loans with longer terms.
    — Christina Rexrode, WSJ, 10 June 2018
  • Quicken is the first nonbank to become the top retail mortgage lender since the 2008 financial crisis.
    — Jc Reindl, USA TODAY, 1 June 2018
  • At the same time, while lending is being limited by high-interest rates and risks, some banks and nonbanks are looking for ways to support their clients through subsidized loans.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
  • BaaS integration helps the nonbank companies increase their customer base since bank customers tend to trust their banks to take care of their finances in the long run.
    — Ankit Agarwal, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Like direct lending, ABF involves the extension of credit by nonbank lenders.
    — Andrew Curtis, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The reawakening of the nonbank lending industry has been good news for the broader real-estate community.
    — Peter Grant, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Shaky Foundations The rise for nonbanks in the mortgage sector and now their pain shows the shaky ground on which much of the post-crisis financial world has been built.
    — Joe Light, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Some lenders—particularly nonbanks that don’t have other lines of business —could take on riskier customers to keep up their level of loan volume, or be forced to sell themselves.
    — Christina Rexrode, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Ten or 20 years ago, people thought of the category narrowly—nonbank middle market direct lending and not much more.
    — Andrew Curtis, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • For now bank resilience is mostly based on more and better capital and liquidity, but there has also been a rapid growth in complex ways to shift risk to funds, and in lending by nonbanks.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
  • That poses risks for the industry, in particular the nonbank lenders that extended the majority of mortgage credit so far this year.
    — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020

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