A bank is a financial institution and a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities.

Bank, The Bank, or banking may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • DCI Banks, a British television crime drama, aired by ITV 2010–2016
  • Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, a 1983 telemovie
  • The Bank (1915 film), starring Charlie Chaplin
  • The Bank (2001 film), starring David Wenham

Music

  • "Bank", a 2017 song by Brockhampton from Saturation
  • "Bank", a 2018 song by Lil Baby from Harder Than Ever
  • "Bank" (Icegergert and Zivert song), a 2025 Russian song by Icegergert and Zivert

Other media

  • Memory Banks (comic strip), a British comic strip
  • Memory Bank (UK game show), a daytime game show which was shown on Five in the UK

Finance

  • Central bank
  • Mutual savings bank
  • Piggy bank, a device for money saving
  • Savings bank

Organizations

  • BANK (art collective), a 1990s London art collective
  • Bank (diaper bank), organizations created for the purpose of distributing free diapers to parents and caregivers unable to afford diapers
  • Bank Street College of Education, a private graduate school for Early Childhood Education in New York, NY, U.S.

Places

  • Bánk, a village and municipality in the comitat of Nógrád, Hungary
  • Bank, Iran, a city in Bushehr Province, Iran
  • The Bank, Cheshire, a location in England
  • Bank junction, a major road junction in the City of London
  • Bank Station (OC Transpo), a bus stop in Ottawa
  • Bank Street (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada
  • Bank–Monument station, a tube station in London
  • Bankə, Azerbaijan
  • Promysel Narimanova or Bank, Azerbaijan

Science and technology

Computing

  • Data bank, a storage area for information in telecommunications
  • Memory bank, a logical unit of storage

Biology and healthcare

  • Blood bank
  • Gene bank
  • Ova bank
  • Seed bank
  • Sperm bank

Natural geography

  • Bank (geography), a raised portion of seabed or sloping ground along the edge of a stream, river, or lake
  • Ocean bank, a shallow area in a body of water

Transportation

  • Bank engine, a railway locomotive attached to the rear of a train, usually to add haulage power over a short distance
  • Bank or roll, in aircraft flight dynamics, a rotation of the vehicle about its longitudinal axis
  • Banked turn, a change of direction in which a vehicle inclines
  • Cylinder bank, a single row of cylinders in an internal combustion engine

Sport

  • Bank shot, a type of shot in:
  • Basketball
  • Cue sports
  • Citizens Bank Park or The Bank, a baseball stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
  • M&T Bank Stadium or The Bank, an American football stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
  • Bank of America Stadium or The Bank, an American football stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.

Other uses

  • Bank (surname), a surname
  • Bank (fortification), a type of earthwork used in field defenses or around early hillforts
  • Food bank, non-profit, charitable organization that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger

See also

  • Banker (disambiguation)
  • Banks (disambiguation)
  • Banku (disambiguation)
  • Cache (disambiguation)
  • Embankment (disambiguation)
  • Mitigation banking, or environmental mitigation, government-regulated environmental offset projects
  • Phone bank (disambiguation)
  • Ponding bank, a technique used in regenerative agriculture to prevent soil erosion
  • Shore
  • Storage (disambiguation)
  • Vəng (disambiguation), several places in Azerbaijan
  • East Bank (disambiguation)
  • Left Bank (disambiguation)
  • North Bank (disambiguation)
  • Right Bank (disambiguation)
  • South Bank (disambiguation)
  • West Bank (disambiguation)