A branch, banking center or financial center is a retail location where a bank, credit union, or other financial institution offers a wide array of face-to-face and automated services to its customers.
Former Bank of Montreal branch in Ottawa, now a historical building.
Current Bank of America branch in Porter Ranch, Los Angeles, California
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets.
This 15th-century painting depicts money-dealers at a banca (bench) during the Cleansing of the Temple.
Sealing of the Bank of England Charter (1694), by Lady Jane Lindsay, 1905.
Interior of the Helsinki Branch of the Vyborg-Bank [fi] in the 1910s
Banco de Venezuela in Coro.