What we now have a most unusual situation - a bank in Scotland with profits in freefall despite previous attempts at gutting expenses, comparatively few branches and soon to become fewer, effectively little more than an financial call centre with a few cheque cashing shops and a couple of trendy business centres.
Not only did the bank make a lot of risky home loans to people who couldn't document their income and now can't pay, but Indymac also had a fairly fickle base of depositors, since it offered few branches or other services to build loyalty.
RBS, as expected, will have to sell more than 300 branches in England and Wales and a few more NatWest branded branches in Scotland.
The closures are part of the bank's goal to eliminate some 12% of branches over the next few years.
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He left during Hurricane Gloria in 1985, but when he came back and only found a few downed branches, he felt it wasn't worth evacuating.
For a few years, the branches being sold by Lloyds will be rebranded as TSB, which is one of the few banking names untainted by the financial and ethical disasters of recent times.
Isaac has left its mark in the form of downed trees, curbs covered in branches and other detritus, a few twisted stoplights and bent signs.
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The storm had passed during the night, and there was some debris on the shore, a few stray coconuts and palm branches.
To do so, I suggest it consider a few brand truths as it branches out and takes on products and services not currently in its purview.
Citi and Chase branches are clustered in the Northeast and a few other spots around the country.
As winter approaches, the trees are bare except for a few remaining leaves dangling from their branches.
Lloyds will warrant that a few million customers will move with their branches to the new owner.
It is that a bank with branches on every corner seems safer than one with only a few, even if the deposits of both are guaranteed by the government.
The commission noted that Abbey National was only a recent entrant to this market, but considered that its brand name, national network of branches and presence in personal and some business markets made it one of the very few players outside the big four able to compete in the SME market.
And as we all know, only after a few short months at home, the Comfort is back in Haiti, along with many other branches of our military, delivering aid with their civilian counterparts, helping the Haitian people, and all the while showing the very best of America and making us all so proud.
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