Yet banks retain an important edge over accountancy firms - they have access to external capital, which their rivals do not.

He performed so well that the bank retained him after discovering the lie about his education.

However, the individual banks retained their own management.

American banks retained about $8 trillion of that total directly as traditional mortgage loans.

But under the Fed plan, banks would retain some of their current freedom to choose which agency regulated them.

The bank will retain £9 (10 per cent of £90) and lend £81, and so on.

Before adoption of this Act, most states required banks to retain physical copies of all checks they process.

The bank retained an equitable right to the money.

So the bank selling the loan will effectively still retain a financial interest in it.

The bank then retained Sterling Equities to complete and market the building.