Whois & Analysis for usbank.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.

A mortgage loan, also referred to as a mortgage, is used either by purchasers of real property to raise funds to buy real estate; or alternatively by existing property owners to raise funds for any purpose, while putting a lien on the property being mortgaged.

The loan is "secured" on the borrower's property.

This means that a legal mechanism is put in place which allows the lender to take possession and sell the secured property ("foreclosure" or "repossession") to pay off the loan in the event that the borrower defaults on the loan or otherwise fails to abide by its terms.

The word mortgage is derived from a "Law French" term used by English lawyers in the Middle Ages meaning "death pledge", and refers to the pledge ending (dying) when either the obligation is fulfilled or the property is taken through foreclosure.

A savings account is a deposit account held at a retail bank that pays interest but cannot be used directly as money in the narrow sense of a medium of exchange (for example, by writing a cheque).

These accounts let customers set aside a portion of their liquid assets while earning a monetary return.

In some jurisdictions, deposits in savings accounts do not incur reserve requirements.

U.S. Bancorp is a bank holding company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

It is the parent company of U.S. Bank, National Association, known as U.S. Bank, which is ranked 5th on the list of largest banks in the United States.

The company provides banking, investment, mortgage, trust, and payment services products to individuals, businesses, governmental entities, and other financial institutions.

It has 3,106 branches and 4,842 ATMs, primarily in the Midwestern United States.

A transaction account, checking account, current account or demand deposit account is a deposit account held at a bank or other financial institution.

It is available to the account owner "on demand" and is available for frequent and immediate access by the account owner or to others as the account owner may direct.

Access may be in a variety of ways, such as cash withdrawals, use of cheques and debit by electronic transfer.

In economic terms, the funds held in a transaction account are regarded as liquid funds and in accounting terms they are considered as cash.