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Essay The Seventeenth National Bank

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SECTION I: CASE OVERVIEW Seventeenth National Bank is competitive bank, located in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, which employs 600-700 people. Its data processing department acts a small service bureau and is currently doing computer processing for four banks other than Seventeenth National. Even though, one of the four banks has notified Seventeenth National that it intends not to renew their contract because they feel is it less costly for them to handle it in-house, the three remaining banks generate enough revenue to offset costs of doing its own computer processing. Additionally, one of the remaining three banks is very small, but is well known, so Seventeenth National uses its name to attract new business. The bank …show more content…

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