bank run


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Noun1.bank run - the concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they think it will failbank run - the concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they think it will fail
bank withdrawal - the withdrawal of money from your account at a bank
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While many financial institutions died from their own mismanagement in 2007 and 2008, the US did not experience a catastrophic bank run because of the US Federal Reserve.
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The human rights activists and members of the civil society have lashed out at DG Health Sindh for his action to seal the blood bank run by the famous philanthropist and chief of Tharparkar Social Organization (TSO) Mama Vishan Thari.
Vasilev was the majority owner of Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank or KTB), which collapsed in the summer of 2014 following a bank run and was later declared insolvent.
However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no empirical study focusing on the determinants of bank vulnerability to a bank run. This paper therefore attempts to fill this gap.
'Pag ni-repeal namin (if we repeal it), worse case, ang secrecy of bank deposits, magkaka-bank run po ba (would there be a bank run)?
Oman's State General Reserve Fund owned a 30 per cent stake in the Balkan country's fourth-biggest lender, which collapsed due to a bank run and shut down by the central bank.
Strictly speaking, the Greek-Cypriots are not having a bank run, because their banks have all been closed since last Saturday and the cash machines will only give out 500 euros (about $650) per customer.
The cash-strapped lenders have been closed since Saturday, when Cyprus said it would raid personal bank deposits to help fund its international bailout package to avoid a bank run. But parliament rejected the plan to take a portion of bank deposits, leaving the country's bailout plan in doubt.