At Wal-Mart, a Back Door Into Banking
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Wal-Mart failed to get approval for a bank. But the giant discount chain is effectively building one anyway.
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MINOT, ND - City Council members have given Wal-Mart preliminary approval to build a Supercenter, though not without some soul-searching.
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The company's decision reflects a growing trend on Wall Street to unwind the giant financial supermarkets built over the 1990's.
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Most people are accustomed to automatic tellers at the mall that spit out cash and stamps. Eduardo Alvarez wants to persuade you to use an automatic teller at the grocery
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There is no evidence that  a bank proposed by retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc.   would crowd out small community banks, as many such  institutions fear, Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Gary  Stern said on Friday.
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When National Bank chief executive Sir John Anderson peered inside the ANZ Bank for the first time last year, he found a bank with a proud and loyal staff, trying to cope with poor systems.
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Wal-Mart, the nationâs largest private employer, said more than half of its U.S. workers had enrolled in the companyâs health insurance plan.
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After years of dogging Wal-Mart Stores Inc., organized labour has begun to make some surprising inroads at the planet&#39;s largest retailer.
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-- Wal-Mart will start selling prepaid Visa debit cards that don't require a credit check or bank account, the company said Wednesday.
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Consumers who have become used to writing checks in the expectation of having at least a couple of days to cover them with a deposit may soon be in for a rude awakening.
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They greet customers with Starbucks coffee, obsess over the exact placement of their teller counters, and monitor customers' reactions to their every move. As banks become more customer focused, they are increasingly looking to retailers for ideas of how to build a better bank branch. After years of ignoring branches during the dot-com boom, banks now are giving them more ...
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Kroger gradually expands its financial services.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on Wednesday that it intends to open 1,000 Wal-Mart MoneyCenters and launch a reloadable prepaid Wal-Mart MoneyCard, in a major expansion of financial services the retailer provides to its base of low-income customers.
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One-stop shopping takes another step forward.
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With so few mergers and acquisitions these days and with fees for them shrinking, bankers have found a new way to milk more cash out of deals: working with both buyer and seller.
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Some hubs of cheap retail are struggling, but not all of them.
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Here's a sneaky way to invest in a grade-A retailer.