Bank Acceptances

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - Acceptances - 20 pages

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Page 9 - is, a rate which fluctuates with the value of money and normally leaves a certain margin of profit to the London bank. The same practice is followed in all the great financial centers of Europe. With us, country banks receive a fixed rate of interest for their deposits, usually 2 per cent, the year
Page 7 - the rating of the mercantile agencies, or the opinion of some correspondent bank. It means, furthermore, the tying up of the bank's funds for a fixed period. If national banks were permitted to accept time bills the country bank could then invest its funds in paper bearing the guaranty of some great bank with whose standing it
Page 1 - not suitable. Foreign banks will not purchase it because they are not ,/^*' acquainted with or sure of the rating of miscellaneous mercantile establishments and because such paper could not be readily disposed of in case it became necessary or profitable to withdraw funds from New York for remittance elsewhere.

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