Retail banking is a distribution game. The models for best practices in distribution are companies like Wal-Mart and the niche retailers.

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It's got to be significant enough and advantaged enough that it would make a meaningful difference.

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Look at Starbucks. If I were [Starbucks CEO] Howard Schultz, I'd be wondering about how to put a bank in my store.

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The entrenched providers today will have to shut and write off that infrastructure as you have the transition from analog to digital. Current entrants in the market have a disconnect in their cost bases that new entrants don't have.

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The whole industry decided it needed some level of diversification. The question is: Has anybody made that work?

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