Relationship

1. Noun.

A connection between organisations, individuals or other entities or concepts.

Often a positive and mutually beneficial connection.

2. Adjective.

Describing an approach to interactions that takes account of a longer term series of interactions, and not just the immediate transaction in view.

3. Banking.

Under a relationship banking approach, a corporate customer only uses a relatively smaller number of banks for all its banking business.

Contrasted with a transactional approach.

4. Correlation.

The way in which an amount varies in association with a change in another amount.

For example, an inverse relationship.

See also

• Ancillary business
• Bank
• Bank relationship management
• Corporate
• Duty of care
• Inverse relationship
• Linear relationship
• Loan relationship
• Loan relationship income
• Negative linear relationship
• Positive linear relationship
• Related party
• Relationship bank
• Relationship banking
• Relationship capital
• Relationship manager
• Relationship management
• Share of wallet
• Slope
• Social and relationship capital
• Transaction
• Transactional
• Transactional banking