An account with a bank or other financial institution, such as a building society in the UK. Deposits may be on current account (UK), or checking account or sight deposits (US), which bear no interest and can be withdrawn on demand, or deposit accounts (UK) or savings accounts or time deposits (US), which bear interest but require notice of withdrawal. In recent years new types of account have blurred this distinction somewhat. Deposits may originate from the account holder placing money obtained from elsewhere in the bank, or from advances by the bank itself.

See also:

import deposit, special deposits, and time deposit

• IBRD
• ICC
• IDA
• identification problem
• identity
• idiosyncratic risk
• if and only if
• IFC
• iff
• illiquidity
• illusion, money
• imaginary number
• IMF
• immigration
• immiserizing growth
• immobile factors
• impact effect
• impatience
• imperfect competition
• imperialism, economic
• implicit contract
• implicit function
• importables
• import control
• import deposit