The phrase 'banking establishment' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a financial institution such as a bank. For example, "The customer went to a popular banking establishment to deposit his paycheck."
It doesn't have a large independent legal or banking establishment.
Initially, the response from Brazil's powerful banking establishment was tepid.
Until recently, the banking establishment was unremittingly hostile to cryptocurrencies.
Irritated European officials and an even angrier banking establishment scrambled to control the damage.
BRUSSELS — In the end, it was Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France against the European banking establishment — and the bankers blinked.
The conflict between the banking establishment and the other 99.7 per cent of us has turned into a battleground for old-style English Puritanism.
Together, the five largest banks account for only about 10percentt of Germany's 54,000 banking establishments.
Antwerp's complex of harbour and industrial activities is served by many commercial agencies, commission agents, import and export firms, banking establishments, insurance companies, road-transport enterprises, and railways.
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908 2006), Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975)"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale".
This Thursday, the market value of Citigroup--the icon of the American banking establishment--was $18.3 billion.
Thomas Jefferson favored eliminating the national debt, arguing that "banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies".
