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...and small banks as merchants gained the ability to steer customers to preferred credit cards....
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...well as bank net interest margins....
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...This may be hard to reconcile with very recent headlines of the same Weinstein warning that “risks are building inside the $1.6tn private credit market and regulators aren’t doing enough”, as Bloomberg put...
...America’s biggest banks are doing just fine. Businesses and consumers are still spending and borrowing, even as interest rates remain at a 22-year high....
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...If you look across the Atlantic, the big French banks are what are known as bancassurance banks. And they have found a great way-- I mean, they make money hand over fist doing it their way....
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