A bank that serves as a depository and provides banking services for another bank. American Banker Glossary
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Bank that accepts deposits of, and performs services for, another bank (called a respondent bank); in most cases, the two banks are in different cities. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary
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correspondent bank UK US noun [C] (also correspondent) BANKING
► a bank that does work for a bank in another place, usually in another country: »
The use of a correspondent bank facilitates the transfer of funds abroad.
correspondent banking noun [U]
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These principles apply in all correspondent banking arrangements.
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correspondent banking UK US noun [U] BANKING
► the act of a small foreign bank using a larger local bank to do its business in places where it has no office: »
An offshore affiliate of Argentina's Banco Republica had a 10-year correspondent banking relationship with Citibank in New York.
»Correspondent banking is the most common means of making international payments.
Financial and business terms. 2012.