"Canada is becoming a market that the banks dominate, so scale has become an important advantage," he said.

Probably no bank has so thoroughly dominated its region as the First National.

And, to make matters worse for the defenders, Student noted, "almost everywhere the southern bank dominated the northern side."

The resulting bank would dominate the Midwest.

State-owned banks that are poorly managed and suffer from non-performing loans still dominate the financial sector.

A generation ago, six major commercial banks dominated the financial world in New York, which itself was the financial capital of the world's largest economy.

The bank dominates the skyline, and is seen as a symbol of China's future dominance of the colony.

Table 17.6 shows how the banks dominate the personal lending market.

With the wider diffusion of information today, could universal banks dominate American finance in the 21st century as they did in the 19th century?

In Europe, banks have historically dominated the debt markets because of the intrinsically regional nature of the arena.