These trends, analysts say, could further divide the industry between the weak and the strong, as banks with more diversified businesses and lower operating costs gradually pull ahead of the pack.
Not losing Facebook in China Liquid concrete Green made good Tough Ghosn Reprints Related items Face value: Tough GhosnSep 13th 2007It is not just the scramble for customers in new markets that will divide the industry into winners and losers.
Instead, in an effort to divide the industry, the Democrats, led by Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, Charles E. Schumer of New York and Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, have been in talks with Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, along with a group of credit unions.
The controversial system has divided the industry.
The customs decision is dividing the industry between importers and companies that produce solar equipment in the United States.
By exempting smaller banks from the tax, the administration divided the industry lobby and left less popular big banks on their own.
As a result, most of them went bust.This time around, convergence will have the effect of intensifying competition, dividing the industry into winners and losers and leading to a round of further consolidation.
"That's not of value to the business community". There are methodological differences among risk analysts, the main one being responsible for dividing the industry into what might be called the traditionalists and the quantifiers.
In the United States, solar panel trade cases have divided the industry in much the same way that automotive trade disputes in the 1980s split the American auto industry, when Detroit automakers seeking import restrictions were opposed by American car dealers who were making large profits from selling and servicing cars imported from Japan.
How can this have happened?Railway privatisation, which divided the industry into more than 100 companies and separated the track from the trains, was rushed through by a Conservative government in 1996 to get it out of the way before an election which the Tories knew they were going to lose.
