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Banks

These are entities that habitually and with profit making in mind, receive funds from the public with irregular frequency, such funds being destined for loans and other kinds of investment. They also carry out other series of services, such as the transaction of giros and transfers, guarding money deposited, the issuing of credit cards, the payment of receipts, etc

Banks are the entities most commonly used by Spanish users if we consider the volume of deposits made, ahead of savings banks and credit cooperatives.

Banks fundamentally carry out three types of operation: The capture of resources, investment of resources captured and other services or operations

 
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Banks are the entities most commonly used by Spanish users if we consider the volume of deposits made, ahead of savings banks and credit cooperatives.


 

 

Although the private bank is not obliged to dedicate part of its profits gained to social ends, some entities however do perform this function via their own foundations created specifically for this purpose, so that the divide between banks and savings banks is less