Fewer bank branches often mean long distances to travel and long lines once you've arrived.

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Customer lines at other Equity bank branches often snake out the front door.

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Even though distant branches often have no money to dispense, the bank's removal would destroy any stirrings of a money economy.

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Those communities without any branches often feel left out.

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Branches are often run almost autonomously, so a merger serves as a convenient excuse to centralise.

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The two have 2, 800 branches between them, often next door to each other.

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Securities salespeople often work out of bank branches, but they are typically neither certified financial planners nor bankers.

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Noisy groups of often abusive pickets appeared at many of the bank's High Street branches.

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More often, cross-selling involves such primitive techniques as displaying insurance brochures in bank branches.

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Bank branches that have above-average deposits also tend to make above-average profits, and they can often get away with offering less attractive interest rates on deposits and loans without losing market share, according to Novantas.

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