Whois & Analysis for cit.com

Retail banking, also known as consumer banking, is the provision of services by a bank to individual consumers, rather than to companies, corporations or other banks.

Services offered include savings and transactional accounts, mortgages, personal loans, debit cards, and credit cards.

The term is generally used to distinguish these banking services from investment banking, commercial banking or wholesale banking.

It may also be used to refer to a division or department of a bank dealing with retail customers.

Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments.

It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainty and risk.

Finance can also be defined as the science of money management.

Finance aims to price assets based on their risk level and their expected rate of return.

Finance can be broken into three different sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance.

A commercial bank is a type of financial institution that provides services such as accepting deposits, making business loans, and offering basic investment products.

Commercial bank can also refer to a bank, or a division of a large bank, which more specifically deals with deposit and loan services provided to corporations or large/middle-sized business - as opposed to individual members of the public/small business - retail banking, or merchant banks.

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit.

Lending activities can be performed either directly or indirectly through capital markets.

Due to their importance in the financial stability of a country, banks are highly regulated in most countries.

Most nations have institutionalized a system known as fractional reserve banking under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities.

In addition to other regulations intended to ensure liquidity, banks are generally subject to minimum capital requirements based on an international set of capital standards, known as the Basel Accords.

CIT Group Inc. is an American financial holding company founded in 1908 with more than $65 billion in finance and leasing assets.

The company's name is an abbreviation of an early corporate name, Commercial Investment Trust.

It provides financing and leasing capital to its middle market clients and their customers across more than 30 industries.

CIT maintains leadership positions in middle market lending, factoring, retail finance, aerospace, equipment and rail leasing, and global vendor finance.

CIT also operates CIT Bank (an FDIC insured bank) and BankOnCIT.com, its primary bank subsidiary.