It's like, the money is in the bank, but the bank doesn't exist yet.

Dan circled that one, wondering if a bank existed in Miami that would front him the down payment.

He doesn't see that banks exist in the first place because they're "just what people like," namely, providers of loans.

The two banks that handled huge amounts of the financing both do not exist anymore.

Many standby letters of credit are forgeries: often the issuing bank does not even exist.

Any serious effort to reform the financial system must ensure that no such banks exist.

Where banks did not exist, John Holt had strong rooms.

They built many banks and houses and the practice still exists.

If the nebula they had located in the Enterprise data banks existed in this universe.

MORE fundamentally, there are questions about why the bank exists at all.