Does banking have a language problem?
Sometimes using a bank means having to swim through a choppy sea of acronyms, initialisms and bizarre words. Mortgage terms and conditions can be the financial equivalent of translating Ancient Sumerian scripts, and pointing out a word you don’t understand can be embarrassing for some. We like to call this language ‘banklish’.
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