Sentence examples for retail branch network from inspiring English sources

Varley, 43, who now heads the retail branch network, is also understood to have been Taylor's choice as successor.

Beyond bungling a deal that it had heralded a month ago, Deutsche Bank is again burdened with a retail branch network that barely makes money.

The bank has been expanding its Japanese retail branch network and making efforts to buff its image, tarnished when regulators shut its private banking operation in 2004.

Both leaned on acquisitions and an expansion of their retail branch network to increase lending revenue despite the cooling of the mortgage market.

On the flip side, JPMorgan's extensive retail branch network in the United States makes it much more vulnerable to consumer defaults on home equity and auto loans than Citi, analysts say.

It also underscores the difficulties for Citigroup, still struggling to improve its business after the government came to its aid last week, to assemble its own domestic retail branch network.

Those that are best placed to succeed are likely to be large international banks with extensive retail branch networks.

Under a complex deal with the German insurance conglomerate Allianz A.G., which holds stakes in both banks, Deutsche will spin off both banks' retail branch networks in a new entity that will be called Bank 24.

As Dresdner's largest shareholder, with 21percentt, Allianz thought it had hammered out a deal last year to merge Dresdner with Deutsche Bank, the country's largest, to form an institution that would concentrate on commercial and investment banking, while Allianz would essentially acquire the retail branch networks to distribute its insurance and investment products.

Eminent figures from Vince Cable, the business secretary, to Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, suggested the commission look at breaking up the banks so that taxpayers could stand behind the retail branch networks while allowing the investment or "casino" operations to fail in a crisis.

That purchase has proved so lucrative that Barclays is now being sued by Lehman's defunct shell for a £3bn profit that it says the British bank made on the deal – a deal that epitomises the generation of bankers who turned Britain's conservative retail branch networks into global dealers in derivatives, bonds and exotic financial transactions in an era of easy money.