Banking and Finance - General Overview – Practice 1

 

 

Choose the correct answer:
  1. A fall in interest rates has  [driven down] the bank's interest rate margin.
  2. What are the bank's liabilities?  [depositors]
  3. Just after the company reached its  [five-year low] it went bankrupt.
  4. Prices of Greek companies went dramatically down due to the political instability and an overall negative [market sentiment] .
  5. What is a liquidity crisis?  [too many withdrawals of funds]
  6. A current account usually pays little or no interest, but allows the holder to  [withdraw] his or her cash with no restrictions:
  7. It is usually the role of the  [central] bank to fix the minimum interest rate.
  8. Because of the dramatic drop in  [revenue] last year, the government has been considering increasing certain taxes.
  9. Standing orders and  [direct debits] are ways of paying regular bills at regular intervals.
  10. The examples of fee-driven services are:  [an overdraft, an atm access, selling stocks and shares]