savings bank

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Investigators believe the thieves probably broke into the Sparkasse savings bank in Nienhofstrasse through the next-door multi-storey car park in the town's Buer district.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

In 1816, the first savings bank in the United States, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, opened for business.

From Washington Times • Dec. 2, 2020

A standing-room-only crowd of true believers and opportunists crammed into the vast domed hall of a former Gilded Age savings bank in Williamsburg.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018

"Recent demands for fundamental consolidation among banks are not appropriate," savings bank association head Georg Fahrenschon told the conference, noting bigger banks had shown they could be "poison" for financial market stability.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2016

They have been employed to instruct us in the whole range of our institutional virtues, from the White House to your neighborhood savings bank.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas