Our textbook claims that one of the key services banks provide is maturity intermediation: what exactly does this mean? (Choose an answer from the list below; only one is correct.)

Reference: Chapter 11 and/or Chapter 1

Group of answer choices

Banks borrow money from their younger customers and lend it to their older customers.

Banks gather small deposits and use them to make large investments, allowing small investors to collectively buy large assets.

Banks help us build responsibility by teaching us saving and budgeting behavior as we mature.

Banks are funded with deposits that they promise to return on demand but use them to make long-term loans, which creates a mismatch in the maturities of their assets & liabilities.