BANK

The word bank was borrowed in Middle English from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca, from Old High German banc, bank "bench, counter". Benches were used as desks or exchange counters during the Renaissance by Florentine bankers, who used to make their transactions atop desks covered by green tablecloths

Bank is a financial intermediary that accepts deposits from different sources and provide loans to those who requires. In other word bank is a financial intermediary that accepts deposits and channels those deposits into lending activities, either directly or through capital markets and bank connects customers with capital deficits to customers with capital surpluses. Bank server all types of surplus and deficits units which offers deposit accounts with the size and maturity characteristics desired by surplus units and offers funds received from deposits to provide loans of the size amd maturity desired by deficits units.