Definition:
According
to Prof.Kinley, A bank is an
establishment, which makes to individuals such advances of money as may be
required and safely made, and to which individuals entrust money when not
required by them for use.”
“Banking
is defined as accepting for the purpose of lending or investment of deposits of
money from the public, repayable on demand or otherwise and withdraw able by
cheque, draft, order or otherwise” –The
Banking Regulation Act,1949
In
the words of Prof.H.L.Hart,”A banker
is one who in the ordinary course of his business receives money. which he
repays by honouring cheques of persons from whom or on whose account he
receives it”.
In
short any activities involved in accepting and safeguarding money owned by
other individuals and entities, and then lending out this money in order to
earn a profit is known as banking,
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