Article: NAFTA turns BofA onto Mexican market, other banks more cautious. (North American Free Trade Agreement, Bank of America)

Passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement has opened up Mexico to U.S. banks for the first time in 55 years, but two of California's three biggest banks have taken a cautious approach to doing business south of the border. Mexican officials say more than a score of U.S. and Canadian banks have expressed interest in applying for licenses to operate subsidiaries, but First Interstate Bancorp and Wells Fargo Bank are not among them -- or at least not publicly.

However, San Francisco-based Bank of America, California's largest bank, is very much interested in the Mexican market. Bank of America officials say they hope to have full-blown branches operating in ...

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