Meanings
- not comparableNot a bank
Many mortgages originate with nonbank lenders.
1 more example
CFPB also went after a Chicago-based nonbank mortgage firm, Townstone Financial, for supposed discrimination and to effectively censor the owner’s speech.
2025 February 10, CRA Staff, “Primer: The CFPB Should Be Shut Down”, in Center for Renewing America
Origin
- Englishnon-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
- Proto-Germanic*bankiz
- Proto-West Germanic*banki
- Lombardicbank
- Italianbanca
- Middle Frenchbanque
- Englishbank
- Englishnonbank
Cite this entry
nonbank. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonbank
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