Today I've heard on the TV an American office worker who was speaking about "Lehman Brothers": "I regret that this oldest firm, which is a part of American culture, became bankrupt".
The idea of a bank being a part of culture sounds very strange to me. I can't even imagine a situation where I could say that Сбербанк (the oldest Russian bank which is 167 years old) is a part of Russian culture. It sounds like a complete rubbish to me.