Investment Bank List

Top Commercial Banks List

1	Citigroup
2	Bank of America Corp.
3	J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
4	Wells Fargo
5	Wachovia Corp.
6	U.S. Bancorp
7	Capital One Financial
8	National City Corp.
9	SunTrust Banks
10	Bank of New York Co.
11	PNC Financial Services Group
12	BB&T Corp.
13	State St. Corp.
14	Fifth Third Bancorp
15	KeyCorp
16	Regions Financial
17	Mellon Financial Corp.
18	Marshall & Ilsley Corp.
19	M&T Bank Corp.
20	Comerica
21	Northern Trust Corp.
22	North Fork Bancorp.
23	Popular
24	Synovus Financial Corp.
25	AmSouth Bancorp.
26	First Horizon National Corp.
27	Zions Bancorp
28	Huntington Bancshares
29	Compass Bancshares
30	Commerce Bancorp

Commercial Banks

Commercial bank is the term used for a normal bank to distinguish it from an investment bank.

This is what people normally call a "bank". The term "commercial" was used to distinguish it from an investment bank. Since the two types of banks no longer have to be separate companies, some have used the term "commercial bank" to refer to banks which focus mainly on companies. In some English-speaking countries outside North America, the term "trading bank" was and is used to denote a commercial bank. During the great depression and after the stock market crash of 1929, the U.S. Congress passed the Glass-Steagal Act 1930 (Khambata 1996) requiring that commercial banks only engage in banking activities (accepting deposits and making loans, as well as other fee based services), whereas investment banks were limited to capital markets activities. This separation is no longer mandatory.

It raises funds by collecting deposits from businesses and consumers via checkable deposits, savings deposits, and time (or term) deposits. It makes loans to businesses and consumers. It also buys corporate bonds and government bonds. Its primary liabilities are deposits and primary assets are loans and bonds.

Commercial banking can also refer to a bank or a division of a bank that mostly deals with deposits and loans from corporations or large businesses, as opposed to normal individual members of the public (retail banking).

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