The NAACP's New York state branch and a network of Hispanic groups have joined a legal effort to block the first-of-its-kind restriction, igniting questions Wednesday about the groups' ties to the beverage industry.
They organise a branch network of groups of women and start lending to them.
Su Casita also has a network of branch offices where borrowers can pay in cash--few Mexicans have bank accounts--and Su Casita employees can go knock on doors if a payment is late.
The council has said it wants to have a "core branch network" of libraries.
The project in question is a plan to build an entire cultural district in Abu Dhabi, including a futuristic arts center and a branch of France's Louvre Museum that will consist of a huge, white dome riddled with skylights over a network of man-made islands on the edge of the Persian Gulf.
One name that cropped up immediately is America's Citigroup, one of the few foreign banks with a sizeable retail branch network in Germany.
Branch and remote traffic was backhauled to a small number of egress points where the corporate network met the Internet.
Acquiring customers through direct mail costs 10 times more than acquiring them through a branch network, which means Citi's costs probably outweigh those of Chase, which operates five times as many U.S. branches.
In the pre-network days, if a creditor hit the wrong branch it caused all sorts of problems because that branch did not have the records to respond, and trying to get the records from the right branch were deemed to cause an unreasonable burden to respond on behalf of the banks.
Under orders from the European Commission, Lloyds is selling 632 branches, equivalent to 22% of its branch network - and initial bids need to be received by mid July (which is a bit quicker than expected).
The Beeching report recommended taking an axe to about a third of the network - 5, 000 miles of track, including hundreds of branch lines, 2, 363 stations and tens of thousands of jobs.
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