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36 Cover Story: NatCity Helps Middle Market Into China

Cleveland-based National City wants to compete in China with the bigger kids on the block, but the super regional is not pursuing the red-hot investment-banking or consumer-finance sectors. Instead, it is stepping sideways into the $2.6 trillion economy with an advisory service for underserved American middle-market firms in the States that want to pursue business in China.

40 Feature: Deal Value of Bank Mergers Hits Third-Highest Level in '06

Bank mergers and acquisitions boasted the third-

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