His 153-branch MBf Finance has almost 10% of Malaysia's population as customers.
And because of the credit crunch, banks have shrunk back from lending, making it harder to get loans to branch out, or finance your inventories, or maybe even to make payroll.
Though stable, however, deposits are a more expensive form of finance than repo markets for banks that lack branch networks.
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Morgan and Bankers Trust both ditched their retail branch networks long ago to focus on wholesale finance.
When Weill and a small band of associates took over Commercial Credit , a mediocre finance company in Baltimore, the tale of infusing its branch managers with the spirit of personal entrepreneurship is a model of dynamically growing a tired franchise.
It plans to branch out into power generation and services, particularly finance and banking.
The tapes contained information about United States branch network customers of CitiFinancial, the company's consumer finance division, as well as customers with closed accounts from CitiFinancial Retail Services.
The branch of the Italian police involved is the Guardia di Finanzia - the finance police.
That was right before the housing markets in many parts of the country began an extraordinary boom and also a time when many banks were scrambling to get bigger in consumer finance, attracted by its promise of fat fee income, and scaling back in branch banking, which was considered low-profit and, well, boring.
The truth is that each of these operates as a branch office for the City of London, the square mile that is the epicenter of finance in London.
Price Waterhouse aims to add hundreds of experts to its Japanese branch to handle a growing consulting practice in computer systems integration, mergers and acquisitions, project finance and international taxation.
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