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megabank

megabank

1 4.6
A very large bank that works in many countries and handles large money transfers
  • noun
  • /ˈmɛɡəˌbæŋk/
translation icon : megabanco
  • The global economy is influenced by several megabanks that operate across multiple countries.
  • megabanks of the world

Examples

  • Bank of America's closest peer in terms of being a value-priced megabank with a poor reputation is Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C).

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  • Fisher said Wednesday that megabanks pose such a danger that they can spread "debilitating viruses throughout the financial world," reiterating his call that megabanks should be broken up.

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  • Miller probably had to face challenges to become an executive at the megabank.

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  • A third top Fed official is calling for megabanks to be broken up.

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  • Unfortunately, today only five of these 25 megabanks are American-owned, according to Leto Market Insight.

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  • Today we have a dollar-based global financial system dominated by roughly 25 government-subsidized international megabanks, with some of the biggest owned by China.

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  • But between Bullard, Hoenig, and Fisher, at least three of the 12 regional Fed presidents are calling for megabanks to be broken up.

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  • These subsidies enable megabanks to borrow more cheaply and grab market share relative to smaller banks (those with less than $10 billion of assets).

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  • The inability of Europe's megabanks to come up with the trillions of dollars they owed posed such a risk to the U.S. economy that doing nothing was simply not an option.

    Academic text (2018)
  • While I'll continue fighting to eliminate this mentality with the megabanks, we need to stop the spread of the too-big-to-fail virus into other sectors of the economy," Vitter said.

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How Big

megabank
1 4.6
international
2.1
national bank
  • Specialized
4 3.1
regional
521 3.5

Surface Forms

megabank singular
megabanks plural

Morphology

megabank = bank (transparent) = mega + bank

The meaning is directly compositional: 'mega-' means very large and 'bank' is a financial institution.

Etymology

The word megabank joins the prefix mega- meaning 'very large' with bank, and you see the same mega in megabyte and megastore. So, a megabank is simply a bank that is very big and often works around the world.