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Loan-to-Deposit Ratio
The loan-to-deposit ratio (loans divided by deposits) measures the size of a bank’s loan book to its deposits and is used to assess a bank’s funding strategy as well as its ability to withstand deposit withdrawals without causing solvency problems.