John Allison
John Allison
depends early mergers people talking whether
We're pretty much on schedule, ... We are talking to some people right now, but mergers are unpredictable. ... We'd like to see a transaction in the early part of 2006, but whether we will or not, frankly, depends on the sellers.
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We're programming these agents to have knowledge about the battlespace,
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We knew that deposits were profitable, but we didn't realize quite how profitable they were. We also have gone to free checking and other free lots of stuff to match up better with the market in terms of pricing.
lull pick somewhat
We are at somewhat of a lull in consolidation, but I think that will pick up again,
beat competing good grew knew larger
We grew up competing with much larger institutions. They are very good at what they do and we knew that we couldn't beat them at their game.