The Detroit bank is pushing beyond its Rust Belt home to open branches in Florida, Texas and California.
Banks are increasingly moving business out of expensive bricks-and-mortar branches to cash machines, home computers and low-cost mini-branches in supermarkets.
Branches bring in mortgages, home equity lines of credit, auto loans, small-business borrowings, certificates of deposit, credit cards--all products with fairly predictable income streams.
Mortgage applications are done on the spot at the branches, never at a central home loan office, as is the case with most other lenders.
So if you travel a lot or commute a distance from home to work, a bank with widespread branches and many ATMs is probably going to cost you less than a bank with a more limited range.
Mr. McDonnell spends up to an hour and a half preparing a home for an open house, cutting fresh pine branches or picking fresh lavender and mint from his herb garden.
When Hurricane Katrina's mighty winds and waters slammed into the Big Easy last August, Ashe jumped off a third-floor balcony of her elegant home into a tree and clung to its swaying branches.
Deeply moved by the beauty of the stars shining between the branches of a fir tree, he brought home an evergreen tree and decorated it with candles to share the image with his children.
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In New York, the bank is preparing a fleet of commercial trucks and mobile-home trailers that can double as roving automated teller machines or bank branches on wheels.
The bank had vowed to fight the charges, claiming that because it only had branches in Switzerland, it was bound only by its home country's relaxed banking laws.
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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The U.S. branches of Indian outsourcers rely on bringing in their own tech experts from home, saying they are most familiar with the software and other technology developed in India to streamline American companies' payrolls, record-keeping and other outsourced functions.
The directive also put home-country supervisors in charge of prudential oversight while host-country regulators were to ensure that local bank branches, wherever their headquarters, observed local rules.
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Thus foreign branches of international corporations keep money overseas to invest and create more jobs, rather than bringing the profits home.
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