Talk:Branch (banking)

Section to be removed
Seems like the "Green Branch" Section should be deleted. It's not so much a type of branch as an environmentally friendly (at least that is what is claimed) version of a regular old ATM branch. The branch is not different in a way that is relevant to banking. Perhaps it could go into an article on environmental awareness by corporations. In this article, it is more like advertising for the bank that has trademarked the signifier DGGenuine (talk) 18:20, 11 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is marketing for PNC's new style of branch... if anything, it should be relegated to a mention in a paragraph discussing "branding" concepts like the cafe-branch and maybe other branch-design topics... SafeCatch?. --Marcinjeske (talk) 06:09, 27 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It's completely a marketing section in this article, and worse, if you read the main article on the topic, it's clear that it's absolutely marketing done by someone from or on behalf of the bank: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Branch --68.59.107.135 (talk) 20:57, 21 March 2012 (UTC) (Isaac Eiland-Hall, but can't be bothered to log in just to make this comment, sorry)

Branch banking prohibited in the US
According to this article, ". . .the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 prohibited banks from having branches in another state. . ." That Act applied only to Bank Holding Companies, many of which were established to circumvent the provisions of The McFadden Act of 1927 which, according to the FDIC, prohibited interstate banking (http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/important/index.html). The national prohibition against interstate branch banking as imposed by McFadden is confirmed by Wikipedia's own entry on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McFadden_Act.

Georgia Yankee (talk) 17:37, 15 July 2010 (UTC)