It has plans to increase the number of branches further and to expand its private-banking activities.
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NationsBank has remained mum on the number of branches and employees it intends to shed.
In the past decade it has reduced the number of branches from 42, 000 to 18, 000, but may need to slim further.
Laiki Bank is due to be closed as part of the restructuring plan, but there are a small number of branches in the UK serving around 13, 000 customers.
Santander said the total number of bank branches in Spain was expected to fall to 30, 000 by the end of 2015, down from 46, 000 in 2008.
The second is the sheer number of bank branches in the region--more than 3, 500.
Compared with untreated sallows, cutting on its own produced a 20% increase in the number of new branches grown.
Between 1991 and 1997, the number of bank branches and staff in France and Germany barely budged even as banks merged, according to research by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, an American bank.
This will reduce the number of Bank of Ireland UK branches in Northern Ireland from 44 to 35.
The book has helped Citibank more than double the number of credit cards sold through its branches to an average of 20 per branch per month, from seven in 2010, Ms. Stewart said.
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America and operates a number of service centers, supply branches and sales offices through which it markets pipes, valves, fittings, safety and other maintenance products.
Unlike many other banks who have recently announced job cuts, largely in investment banking, JP Morgan Chase is reducing the number of people working in its branches.
The number of U.S. branches doubled over the past three decades, and the industry has reduced branches just three times in the 77 years since the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. started keeping track.
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Google searches uncovered that a mathematical concept called the Fibonacci number sequence underlies the structure of tree branches.
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There are only around 100, 000 bank branches in India and a large number of the country's more than 650, 000 villages don't have a single bank.
And Philadelphia-based Beneficial Bank set up financial libraries within its branches, so customers can read up on any number of money-related topics.
The way to test that is to track back along the branches leading from each existing language, and count the number of splits on each path before you get to the common ancestor of all.
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Like all branches of American industry, insurers are being confronted with an increasing number of lawsuits.
Although it wants to keep all the brands and branches intact, it says there are many benefits from natural wastage (the number of people due to retire is rising quickly) and from cost-cutting in technology, which accounts for most of its savings.
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