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Article: Retrenched Marine Midland builds globally, acts locally. (Marine Midland Banks Inc.) (Management Strategies)
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- American Banker
- Article date:
- July 6, 1993
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FROM THEIR headquarters on the shore of Lake Erie, top executives at Buffalo's Marine Midland Banks Inc. spent a good part of the 1980s dreaming of how they could soon join the ranks of money-center banks clustered downstate.
But huge losses in 1990 and 1991 totaling almost $500 million, along with nearly $2 billion in loan chargeoffs between 1988 and 1991, instead forced Marine to trim its sails, shedding assets and employees to concentrate on a handful of businesses.
The bank's management and operations have also been tethered more closely to those of its corporate parent, HSBC Holdings PLC. The London-based holding company, with nearly $260 billion in ...