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MrTriumph

(1,720 posts) Fri Apr 20, 2012, 12:08 AM Apr 2012

Since when was my nearby B of A branch a "community bank"?!

Hey, has anyone else seen the newest mega-bank corporate rebranding? In a B of A today there was a large, new wall hanging proclaiming the branch was, in fact, a "community bank".

Congratulations to OWS!

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Since when was my nearby B of A branch a "community bank"?! (Original Post) MrTriumph Apr 2012 OP

Maybe they bought the community. Atman Apr 2012 #1

Well mine was a long time ago. Warren Stupidity Apr 2012 #2

Sounds akin to the 'green washing' of corporate eco conciousness n/t Earth_First Apr 2012 #3

LOL Mr Dixon Apr 2012 #4

They have foreclosed on enough houses now so that they are the community?? mdavies013 Apr 2012 #5

Atman

(31,464 posts)

1. Maybe they bought the community.

Reply to MrTriumph (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 06:31 AM

Apr 2012

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

2. Well mine was a long time ago.

Reply to MrTriumph (Original post)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 07:17 AM

Apr 2012

It was a regional bank, Bay Bank, and then the kleptocratic deregulation frenzy took hold and the regional banks got eaten by the national bank monsters and my community bank became BoA.