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How do investment banks (Goldman and Morgan Stanley) accept deposits?

According to today’s (Sept 22) NY Times, “Both banks already have limited retail deposit-taking businesses, which they plan to expand over time. Morgan Stanley had $36 billion in retail deposits as of Aug. 31 and Goldman Sachs had $20 billion in deposits. ” I thought that ony banks could accept deposits, not investment banks. (Obviously this [...]

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