Ex. 1. Answer these questions:
A.
1. What services do banks offer?
2. What is the nature of banking? How do banks earn a living?
3. Do commercial banks play a very important role in an economy?
4. What are the more recent developments in banking?
5. What banking policy can guarantee stability?
B.
1. What can prove the substantial progress made by the bank?
2. What can the success of the bank be attributed to?
3. What does the bank specialise in?
4. Are customers' service requirements changing? What are they now?
5. How does the bank respond to these changes?
6. Why and how was the bank restructured?
7. What is the biggest challenge for the bank at the moment?
Ex. 2. Give derivatives of:
definition n advance n competition n contract n
accept v intermediary n activity n substantiate v
lend v deposit n collect v progress n
borrow v acquire v commitment n withdrawal n
Ex. 3. Find English equivalents for the following Russian phrases from the text:
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. ; ... ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; -.; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; .
