Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Groups Push for Defeat of Wal-Mart Bank

Wow.

An AP newswire article by David Twiddy, via SFGate.com, reports that:

Community and regional bank officials presented a nearly unified front Tuesday in opposing Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s application to form its own bank.

Noting the retail giant's history of dominating every business sector it enters, small-town bank executives and statewide banking groups said a Wal-Mart-controlled bank would dry up financial resources in some towns, endanger the country's banking system if it were to fail and give the company an unfair competitive advantage.

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