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SunTrust Hitches Ride with Wal-Mart.

By David McNaughton, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 11--Think of the latest banking merger as SunTrust-meets-Wal-Mart.

Sure, the silk-stocking Atlanta bank will branch into some demographically appealing markets, such as Charlotte and Memphis. But it also will latch onto the agreeable, fast-expanding partnership that National Commerce Financial has with Wal-Mart.

The cachet of the world's biggest retailer is such that National Commerce plugs its outlets in Wal-Mart locations using the Wal-Mart name fi

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