Is there a North Carolina-style dynamo waiting to whir
into action in some unconsidered part of Europe? Or is the
coast-to-coast merger triumph of what was once NationsBank and has
now taken on Bank of America branding something that can't be
replicated outside the US? Certainly, things are going to go
differently in the EU, but bank experts reckon there's a lot to be
learnt from US merger mania. The views of the new Bank of America's
James Hance and Frank Gentry, and of others eyeing Europe, are
sifted by James Smalhout
February 01, 2000