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The Bank was the one and only bank in the small town of Kingston Falls and it is used by almost everyone in town.

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Mrs. Ruby Deagle seemed to have a lot of control over the bank, which suggest she is the majority owner or a significant minority owner. Mr. Corben is the president who runs most of the bank's day-to-day operations as well as ultimately deciding when mortgages and other loans come due. Gerald Hopkins is an executive vice president, a position he was promoted to when he was 23. However, Gerald is also unpopular with other bank employees, to include Kate and her boyfriend William Peltzer, who work as tellers. Billy sees the bank mostly as a way to provide a steady cash flow for himself and his parents, as that low-level job has actually made him the family breadwinner. Billy is a struggling artist whose career has not yet gotten off the ground, which mirrors his own father, who is working to create a marketable invention.

On the night of the gremlin attack on the town, gremlins broke inside the bank and killed Corben by hitting his head with a large clock, while Gerald survived by locking himself into the vault (as seen in a deleted scene). Later Billy, along with Kate and Gizmo arrive at the now empty bank to hide from the evil Gremlins. It is unknown who became the new bank manager of the bank once the Gremlins were defeated and the town healed from the incident, but it is assumed Gerald did.

In Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Billy mentions that he could have just continued working for the bank and Kate tells him he would have "hated it".

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