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Total deposits grew by $1.2 billion, or 4%, driven by increases in time deposits and interest-bearing demand deposits.
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Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2025
Cash and cash equivalents decreased by $1.0 million to $17.3 million, primarily held in interest-bearing demand deposits.
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Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
The increase was mainly in interest-bearing demand deposits and certificates of deposit.
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Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Certificates of deposit decreased by $350,000, while demand deposit accounts fell by $753,000.
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Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
In economies dominated by digital solutions, the medium of exchange has de facto defaulted to bytes expressing a particular type of agreement (i.e., the terms of a demand deposit account, or certificate of deposit).
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Christian Kameir, Forbes, 7 July 2022
The latter are grouped under the label M1 by the Federal Reserve and, aside from physical cash, include funds recorded in demand deposit accounts, aka checking accounts.
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Christian Kameir, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
Get our daily newsletter Banks fund themselves on a short-term basis via demand deposits, but also on money markets, such as that for repos.
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The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
Checking accounts and demand deposits would bear a -4% or -5% interest rate.
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Charles Eisenstein, Quartz, 27 Aug. 2019
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First Known Use
1923, in the meaning defined above
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“Demand deposit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demand%20deposit. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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demand deposit
see deposit sense 2a
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