business of taking deposits

基本解释

The main business activities of the Bank include: deposits taking;
兴业银行主要经营范围包括：吸收公众存款；
Of course, some of the Wall Street banks, such as Goldman Sachs, are not in the business of taking retail deposits.
当然，华尔街上的一些银行，诸如高盛公司，拒不开展小额零星存款业务。
In the next 12 months the spotlight falls on microfinance, the business of lending small amounts of money to the poor, taking deposits from them, transmitting money on their behalf and insuring them.
在接下来的12个月内，焦点将集中在小额信贷上，就是把少量的钱借给穷人，向其吸收存款，代办汇款，并为之提供保险。

One reason they keep trying is that retail banking—the mundane business of taking deposits and making loans—has long looked dull.
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