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Banking system is one of the most important instruments of the economy.
It is an open secret that banks are the most important link in the world of 1_______. This is because, first of all, 2_______ nowadays perform the main part of the work of transferring money from a customer to a seller, by operating the system of payments in the economy. Almost everyone in the world uses or has used banking services. Families keep their savings there, and banks pay them interest rates on their deposits and give them loans to buy expensive goods. Companies 3_______ payments through them. Commercial organizations, which work at the market and in production, take loans for their needs and conduct all payments with buyers and sellers through them. Landowners and owners of real estate take 4_______ from the banks to buy an estate or to make use of it and pay back loaned money.