Twelve Big Ideas - Continental: The Big Bank With the Little Bank Inside
John M. Wolfe
Let me set the stage for you with a few background facts.
Continental is a big bank – the biggest in Chicago, the 7th largest in the country. Among the top twenty in the world. It has a big formal name – Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago. (That's a 10-second commercial all by itself!)
It has a wonderful reputation – with large corporations, with other banks, with the financial community, with wealthy individuals. And it does a lotof...