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Our Changing Banking Structure
Remarks of George U. Mitchell
Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
at the
Annual Convention of the
Maine Bankers Association
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
June 14, 1968

Our Changing Banking Structure
The banking structure of the United States is often
characterized as unique among the world's banking systems because
it is made up of a very large number of separate banking organizations (actually 13,219 as of June 30, 1967).

An implied criticism

in this single fact is that we are "over banked."

That we are not

over banked is apparent from the number of banking offices in the
United States--31,824 offices for a population of 200 million persons,
some 6,300 persons per office— hardly too many service outlets for a
rich industrial nation; considerably fewer in relative terms, for
example, than either Canada or Great Britain has, with 3,300 and
3,900 persons per office, respectively.
A second inference sometimes drawn from our banking structure
is that we have too many small banks and too few large ones to adequately
serve the nation's large scale economy.
To deal with this inference, the U.S. banking structure
must be examined in some detail.

The most convenient approach, I

believe, is to consider the shares of the banking market held by
various sized banks.

Inscead of defining bank size in absolute

terms--for example, so many millions of dollars--I define size in
relative terms— say, the largest five per cent of the banks or the
smallest 25 per cent.

This procedure facilitates comparisons

between States and between years.
Using deposit data from the call reports, shares of
deposit markets can easily be computed for the nation or for individual
States.

Alternatively, one could use shares of the asset market, and

even expand the analysis by use of sub-categories of assets or deposits
which are deemed to have special significance.




-2A preliminary step to this procedure involves the definition
of a banking organization--how should holding companies and less
formal associations of banks be classified.

There obviously are not

as many banks as banking offices nor would there be as many banking
organizations as banks if we limit our count of banking organizations
to those exercising the major policy and management prerogatives.
While holding companies do not ordinarily exercise the same degree
of control over the units in their systems as are exercised over
branches in branch banking systems, certain functions are generally
centralized and many major policy and operating decisions are made
at the holding company level.

Moreover, holding company units do not

compete with each other, except perhaps in a controlled manner.

It

seems appropriate, therefore, to regard all of the banks in a holding
company system (or all its banks in a given State for State shares)
as a single banking organization and that is the basis used for the
statistics in this speech.
One could go even further in reducing the number of banking
organizations using the criteria of common ownership or control.
Several hundred "independent" banks are closely linked in one way
or another.

The common interest or control may be held by individuals,

or groups of individuals, or through one-bank holding companies or
through 100 per cent loans on majority holdings of bank stock.

These

relationships shade into those correspondent connections where major
dependence rests on the "due to" bank.




-3Following this line of argument, the number of banking
organizations could be reduced considerably.

But, however reckoned,

the number of independent institutions would probably still exceed
10,000, a number which implies a system with far too many units to
be effective in mobilizing the necessary financial resources for
servicing our larger industrial, commercial and government institutions.
If we examine the anatomy of our banking structure and the internal
mechanisms within that structure for assembling savings and idle
balances and allocating credit resources we see this is not the case.
A relatively small number of banks in the United States is
specialized- to accommodate the very large financial requirements of
major corporations, .the Federal Government, and the large State and
local governments.

These banks operate all over the country— most

of them all over the world--even though their offices are ordinarily
confined to a single State and their foreign outlets are not numerous.
Thirteen of these banks have 24.3 per cent of the deposit resources
of the entire nation, the next largest 120 have another 28.5 per cent
of this market.

Together, these 133 banks make up 1 per cent of the

nation's banks and they have over one-haIf of the nation's banking
resources (see Table I).

This is the concentration of banking

resources that makes it possible for banking to service the country's
largest customers, whether Government or business.
Turning to the part of the banking structure that includes
the small banks, we are confronted with a very different situation.




-4The smallest 50 per cent of banking institutions has only 5.1 per
cent of total deposit resources and the largest bank in the group
has deposits of less than $5.4 million.

If we take an even smaller

segment, the smallest 25 per cent of the banking institutions, it
has only 1.5 per cent of total deposits and the largest bank in
this group has only $2.7 million in deposits.
Putting together all the resources of 85 per cent of the
nation's smallest banks produces in the aggregate only 17.5 per cent
of the nation's deposits.

The largest bank in this group would have

less than $19.1 million in deposits.
These figures portraying the national banking structure
reveal the great differences in size in banking organization and a
range in resource commensurate to the range in banking service needs
for businesses, governments and individuals.

They also reveal the

fact that there has been little change in market shares of the
various sized groups since 1957.
The share of the largest .1 per cent, for example, increased
by only 1.2 percentage points between 1957 and 1967 and the proportions
of the next largest group varied even less (see Table II).

In the

aggregate, the share of the largest 15 per cent of the banks increased
by .8.
The same stability in market shares is evident among the
groups of small banks— each suffered fractional losses but, in the
aggregate, these losses amounted to the same .8 the larger banks




-5gained.

In relative terms this was a I per cent gain for the large

banks and a 4 per cent loss for the small banks.
These findings may appear at odds with what we know to have
been taking place in the banking legislation with respect to branching
and holding companies in the past decade.

It is interesting, there­

fore, to break down these data by States to observe the differences
in character of the banking structures of the several States and the
changes that have taken place in recent years.
What we find is that legislation inhibiting branching or
holding company banking has significantly altered the banking structure
of some States but has had a far lesser structural impact in others.
The overriding factor in most cases appears to be the economic environ­
ment.

In States having large industrial, commercial and financial

centers large banking organizations have come into being despite
restrictive legislation.

The experience of other States where the

banking climate has been more favorable to local expansion indicates
that, given a combination of favorable economic environment and
favorable branching provisions, still higher concentration ratios
usually prevail.

But the more significant fact is the surprising

ability of major banks in the unit banking cities to compete for
deposits outside of their immediate community and to expand without
the benefit of local branching rights.
Two words of caution are necessary to avoid erroneous
interpretations of the State concentration ratios or market shares




-6used in this speech.

First, a State is seldom the appropriate market

area to use in considering whether concentration of banking resources
is or is not excessive.

There are only a few States in which any

bank competes State-wide for all types of business.
banking market is much more limited.

The typical

There are, for example, over

7,000 communities in the United States in which there is only one
bank or banking office, and in almost all of these the conventional
concentration ratio would be 100 per cent.

These areas are much more

appropriate to the use of a concentration ratio than any but a very
few States.
The second qualification has to do with attributing the
deposits shown for a given bank to the residents and business of the
State in which the bank is located.

The larger banks in particular

have customers in neighboring States and the largest institutions
attract depositors from all over the nation, and even on a world-wide
basis.

Foreign deposits in U.S. banks, for example, exceed $12 billion

and are concentrated in a few institutions.

We do not have similar

statistics which enable us to measure precisely local as opposed to
nonlocal deposits for regional or nationally oriented institutions,
but such proxy indicators as deposit aggregates by size of deposit
account and by type of deposit are helpful in estimating the relative
magnitudes.
Reverting to the market shares for individual States,
shown in Tables III and IV, the range of differences in structure




-7from State to State is strikingly revealed.

The extremes would be

somewhat greater if 7 States with a small number of banking organiza­
tions (less than 20) were included.

They have been excluded because

the technique of relative size groups appropriate to other States
would need to be modified for application to them.

The States

involved are Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii,
Nevada and Rhode Island, and most of them have high concentration
ratios.

Using shares of the market held by 5 banks, nearly all would

show ratios of over 90 per cent.
The State concentration ratios are most useful in pointing
up the influence of State banking restrictions but they also reveal
the differences that economic environment can make.

By using a

combination of factors, then, which classify States according to
their economic environment and according to the freedom given banks
to branch or form holding companies, structural patterns can be
discerned which are helpful in categorizing banking in the various
States.
Starting off with the States in which our major national
financial centers are located, we can see in Table III that among
the five States so classified— California, New York and Massachusetts
have both higher concentration ratios and more liberal branching and
holding company laws than either Illinois or Pennsylvania.

This can

best be observed by looking at the share of the deposit market held
by the largest 5 per cent of the banks.

It ranges from 73 to 89 per

cent for the first three States and 62-66 per cent for the other two.




-8The second and third groupings of regional and State
financial centers show lower concentration ratios overall but the
differences between the States with statutes accommodative to
expansion again contrast to those with restrictive provisions.
Thus, in the second group, the concentration ratios for
the top 5 per cent of the banks in Michigan, Ohio and Minnesota
range from 65 to 69 per cent but drop to 55 and 56 per cent in
Missouri and Texas, where both branching and holding company activity
is limited.
The States listed in Table IV are arranged to give primary
emphasis to differences in State laws on bank expansion.

It appears

in most of these States to have been difficult for a bank to reach
any considerable size or attain a significant share of the market
without favorable statutes relative to branching or holding companies.
Generally, the ability of banks to escape confinement to their own
community or some fraction of it is limited to those in fairly large
population centers.
The contrast between the unit banking-limited holding
company States (bottom panel) and the State-wide-extensive holding
company States (top panel) is rather spectacular.

The States in

the former group show concentration ratios for the largest 5 per
cent of banking institutions averaging 35 per cent; in the latter
group they average 62 per cent.




The statistics I have been using to describe the structure
of banking in 1967 are also available for 1957 and 1961 and, hence,
can be used to pinpoint changes in banking structure during the past
decade.

By introducing a slight variant--the change in market shares

of the largest five banks in each State— every State can be included
in the comparison.

The change in the market shares of the smallest

50 per cent of the banks is available for the States with more than
20 banks.

These data are shown in Table V.
Changes in shares held by the five largest banks are nearly

evenly divided between increases and decreases and in a dozen or so
States were too small to be significant.

Nearly all of the significant

increases were in Atlantic Coast States, as follows:
Market share of 5 largest Decrease in market share
banking organizations
of smallest 50 per ccnt of
banking organizations
Increase
1957
1957 to 1967
1957 to 1967
North Carolina
District of Columbia
Vermont
Virginia
Maryland
Maine
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Florida
New York
South Carolina
Delaware
New Hampshire
Georgia
Pennsylvania




42.4
73.4
29.2
28.0
51.2
38.8
57.3
49.3
21.0
52.4
50.6
86.6
34.7
50.8
36.3

24.4
18.1
17.6
16.5
12.2
9.4
9.0
7.2
5.4
5.7
5.5
5.0
3.3
2.9
2.4

4.3
Not computed
6.4
3.4
1.5
2.3
1.7
3.8
+
.5
.7
Not computed
.6
+
1.9

-10The only other States showing significant increases were
Colorado and Mississippi.

The impact of increased concentration in

the five largest banks on the market shares of the smallest 50 per
cent of the banks is also shown in the above tabulation.

In most

States, the losses shown by the smaller banks are a minor fraction
of the gains shown for the five largest but it must be borne in mind
that the shares of the smallest 50 per cent seldom exceeded 15 per
cent in 1957.
The significant decreases in market shares held by the five
largest banks were also geographically concentrated.

Most of them

occurred in the Midwest and Plains States where branching is limited
and unit banking is most common.

There were also declines in shares

in States where concentration ratios are very high: Arizona, Hawaii,
Nevada, Oregon and Utah.
The decreases in shares were much smaller than the increases
noted in the Atlantic Coast States, as is apparent in the following
tabulation:
Market share of 5 largestjIncrease in market share
banking organizations ,of smallest 50 per cent of
| Decrease
j banking organizations
1957
i 1957 to 1967 j
1957 to 1967________
Wyoming
Louisiana
Missouri
Alabama
Oklahoma
Michigan
North Dakota
Iowa
Ohio
Kansas
Texas
Arkans




48.1
40.3
38.3
41.5
41.1
53.0
53.1
20.8
35.3
19.8
26.4
24.2

9.8
7.7
7.7
6.5
5.4
4.3
4.0
3.3
2.7
2.6
2.5
2.5

2.1
.2
1.9
1.8
1.5
(-)
<-)
.2
(-)
.4
.8
.7

-11There were only five States in the Mississippi Valley area where
shares declined more than 5 per cent and in no case did the decrease
amount to more than 10 per cent.
Because of the restricted nature of the banking structure
in this area it is not surprising that in about half of these 14
States the smallest 50 per cent of the banks made significant gains
in their market shares relative to their own position or to the
losses of the largest five.
However one analyses State banking structures as they
exist today, the fact of heterogeneity in structure beyond any
heterogeneity in environment and need stands out.

Such diversity

is a major banking problem because it is clear that structure has
an important effect on banking service, efficiency and competitiveness.
The changes in structure in the past decade, while modest
in dimension, are by and large in the direction of somewhat less
concentration where concentration is clearly excessive and in the
direction of greater efficiency and better service where branching
and holding company restrictions have been relaxed.

Many cross­

currents persist, however, with an apparent limited awareness of
their perverse effect on public needs and interests.
What conclusions can one reach from study of these
statistics and reflection on the forces affecting banking structure
over the past decade?
I have already indicated that the economic environment and
the resourcefulness of an aggressive bank management has a good bit




-12to do with the banking structure.

Clearly many banks have acted on

the premise that since they are prohibited from expanding in their
own community they will offer banking and intermediary services as
well as credit resources to customers in other States, or even in
other countries.

The record shows, moreover, that several large

banks have done this with considerable success using methods of
garnering financial resources and serving nonlocal customers that
are familiar to you.
The second major factor affecting banking structure in
recent years has been the pattern of statutory, regulatory and
judicial restriction on chartering, branching, holding companies,
and merging.

Here, the major influences observable in the statistics

for the past decade seem, to me, to be traceable to the liberal
chartering policies of former Comptroller of the Currency Saxon
and the restrictive attitude toward mergers of the Supreme Court
and the Department of Justice.
Little significant change has come from changes in branching
laws or regulations.

Most of the tinkering has been in the direction

of relaxing restrictions against branching.

The spread of holding

companies has had a greater impact, even though developments in this
area have only recently accelerated.

Virginia is the outstanding

example of a State taking direct and positive steps toward changing
its banking structure through liberalizing legislation.

The results

there are easily seen in the shift in market shares among various
sized banking groups.




-13The chartering policies of Mr. Saxon have had the positive
effect of bringing new banking organizations into communities where
concentration ratios were extremely high.

The result was to reduce

concentration in many locations and to undermine the anti-competitive
consequence of the doctrine of "over banking" prevalent in the
Thirties and Forties.

The opening up of opportunities to organize

new banks, like many of the developments of the past decade, such
as more realistic bank competition with other financial intermediaries
and with the financial markets for funds, as well as the development
of new bank lending techniques and new instruments for attracting funds,
has encouraged the industry to show greater initiative and less
reliance on regulatory sheltering than it had in the past.

I offer

no comment on whether the effects on regulatory goals of a better
competitive environment has significantly altered regulators' policies.
The role of the courts and the Justice Department in recent
years leaves me with mixed feelings.

Without any doubt, the "tough"

attitude toward mergers has prevented many proposals with promising
corporate rewards and negative public benefits from coming to the
"market."

This is all to the good.

It shows up in the statistics,

1 believe, in the form of a decline in the concentration ratios of
several States where it is apparent that any further concentration
would, presumably, be vigorously challenged by the Justice Department
and supported by the courts.

It also seems to show up on the negative

side in other States where some increase in concentration appears to




-14have been inhibited, but would be desirable on the grounds of better
banking services and a more efficient banking system.
My major reservations on this merger policy, however, have
to do with institutional and economic postulates that the Department
and the courts have used to support the rejection of merger proposals.
I simply do not recognize the reality of banking markets identified
as a unique "cluster of services" available to and used by customers
generally.

Nor is it true that for most financial services these

customers do not have other real alternatives in nonbank financial
institutions or nonlocal banks.

Moreover, the individual, the large

corporation, the small business, the professional man, the farmer,
the nonprofit institution, the small political subdivision, the large
State, or any other class of bank customers, does not use or need the
same cluster of banking services.

The geographic markets for

different classes of customers are not coterminous— some are world
wide, others nation wide, others regional, others local and still
others are limited to a single neighborhood.

The concentration ratio

analysis which ignores both area differences in market breadth and
the correlative changes in competitive environment could be used to
place damaging restrictions on the evolution of a banking structure
essential to our growth objectives.
In the United States, I believe too much local attention
has been given to confining banks to a provincial role and too
little nationwide attention has been given to the need for developing




-15the kind of banking structure required to achieve broad national goals.
In economics we say if a need exists some entrepreneur will spring into
action to supply it.

But the laws in some States and conforming Federal

policies have essentially prevented banking entrepreneurs from doing
anything of the kind.

As I examined the patterns of banking structure

throughout the United States I think all but a few could stand some
objective re-examination in the public interest.

I would attach

special urgency to such re-examination in those States where restrictions
on chartering, branching and holding companies are severest.




Table I
The Banking Structure of the United States
June 30, 1967
Number
of banks
The largest banks
Largest .1 per cent
Next largest .9 per cent
•i
••
4.0
"
"
"
10.0
"

rr
120
520
1,300

The smallest banks
Smallest 25 per cent
Next smallest 25 per cent
it
ii
25
"
ii

ii

10

Share of total deposits
Per cent
Per cent
Cumulated
24.3
52.8
28.5
18.6
71.4
11.1
82.5

3.250
3.250
3.250
1,300

"

1.5
3.6
7.1
5.3

5.1
12.2
17.5

Smallest bank
in group
(millions)
$3,077
370
55
19
Largest bank
in group
(millions)
$2.7
5.4
11.4
19.1

Table II
National Trends in Concentration Ratios for Total Deposits
1957
Per cent Cumulated
The largest banks
Largest .1 per cent
Next largest .9 per cent
"
"
4.0
"
"
"
10.0
"
The smallest banks
Smallest 25 per cent
Next smallest 25 per cent
ii

••

25

11

it

••

2.0

"

Number of bank organizations




Share of total deposits
1961
1967
Per cent Cumulated
Per cent Cumulated

23.1
28.4
18.2
12.0

51.5
69.7
81.7

24.5
28.1
18.5
11.3

52.6
71.1
82.4

24.3
28.5
18.6
11.1

52.8
71.4
82.5

1.6
3.7
7.4
5.6

5.3
12.7
18.3

1.5
3.5
7.1
5.4

5.0
12.1
17.5

1.5
3.6
7.1
5.3

5.1
12.2
17.5

12,843

12,752

13,014

Table III
Concentration and Multiple Office Banking in Selected Groups of States
Number of
Banking ...
Banking
Structure — Organizations
National Financial
Centers
California
New York
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
111inois
Average

SWB
LB
LB
LB
U

Regional Financial
Centers
Michigan
Ohio
Minnesota
Missouri
Texas
Average

LB
LB
U
U
U

State Financial
Centers
Connecticut
Washington
Tennessee
Indiana
Georgia
Florida
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Colorado
Nebraska
Average

SWB
SWB
LB
l.B
LB
U
LB
U
V
U

JL/

2/

HCL
HCE
HCE
No HC
HCL

HCL
HCE
HCE
HCL
HCL

No 1IC
HCL
IICL
HCL
1ICE
HCE
1ICE
HCL
HCL
IICL

Ratio of Total
Offices to Banking
Organizations

Per cent of Total Deposits Controlled By
tallest
Next
Next
Largest
Smallest
50 per cent 35 per cent 10 per cent 5 per cent

178
306
135
522
1,064
441

15.9
8.0
5.9
3.7
1 .0
6.9

41,254
76,725
9,016
23,651
29,399
36,009

I
I
4
6
6
4

4
4
12
14
17
10

6
9
11
14
15
11

89
85
73
66
62
75

341
505
608
656
1,140
650

4.1
3.2
1.4
1.1
1 .0
2.2

17,384
18,618
7,350
10,011
2 0,828
14,838

5
5
9
8
8
13

13
15
14
20
19
16

13
15
8
17
17
14

69
65
69
55
56
63

67
91
293
416
413
373
562
421
247
435
332

6.3
6.0
2.4
2.3
1.6
1.5
1.4
1.1
1.1
1.1
2.5

4,257
4,719
5,839
8,370
5,727
9,082
7,778
4,538
3 ,446
2,793
5,71 5

4
2
7
10
8
11
11
10
8
10
8

17
7
18
24
17
26
23
23
17
22
19

30
17
12
20
10
18
16
16
16
15
17

49
74
63
46
65
45
50
51
59
53
55

SWB - Statewide branching
LB - Limited branching
U
- Unit banking
I1CE - Holding Companies extensive
IICL - No Holding Companies or Holding Companies limited
Insured Commercial Banks, December 31, 1967.




Total
Deposits V
($ mi Liions)

Table IV
Concentration and Multiple Office Banking in Selected Groups of States
Number of
Ratio of Total
Banking
Offices to Banking.
Organizations
Organizations

Total
Deposits*
($ millions)

Per cent of Total Deposits Controlled_2l
Largest
amaiiesc
next
Next
Smallest
Next
”—^
T
50 per cent 35 per cent 10 per cent 5 per cent

States with statewide
branching and/or Holding
Companies prevalent
North Carolina
Oregon
Idaho
Maine
Maryland
Virginia
South Carolina
Utah
Louisiana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Average

128
50
26
41
119
212

125
54
226
140
157
105
115

4
3
3

7.7
6.7
6.4
5.7
4.7
4.3
3.6
3.0
2.3

11

12

73

6
10

5

86

20

66

26

34
70

9
5
9

29
13
16
17
13
19

1.8

12

20

13

1.6
1.6

12

4.1

11
6

8

9
2,826

22

11
12

13
13
21

15

12

10

16

14

24
24
27
30
23

26
14
18
24
15
15

64
61
69
51
55
51
62
62

States with limited branching
and with little or no Holding
Company activity__________
New Jersey
New Mexico
Mississippi
Vermont
Kentucky
Alabama
New Hampshire
Arkansas
Average

1.8

12
11

1.8

12

21

1.6

13

31

1.5
2.3

11

11

22
20

40
48
40
34
51
52
34
36

12

26

19

42

15
13
15
16

28
30
33

18
21

11

17
24

39
36
35
29

15

30

20

35

228
60
188
46
345
266
70
248
181

4.3

10

2.8

14
15

657
601
67
194
380

1.4

2.5
2.5

3,405

States with unit banking
and little or no Holding
Company activity______
Iowa
Kansas
Wyoming
West Virginia
Average

* Insured Commercial Banks, December 31, 1967.



1.1
1.1

1.0
1.2

3,011

Table V
Market Shares by State 1957, 1961, and 1967;
and Change in Market Shares by State 1957 to 1967*

Top Five Banking Organizations
Change in Market
Per cent
Shares: 1957 to 1967
1957
1961
1967
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Dist. of Col.
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Ind iana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

73.4

39.3
85.2
98.1
23.9
81.9
47.9
56.4
91.7
88.7

21.0

21.8

50.8

56.9
96.6

41.5
81.5
98.6
24.2
76.5
40.9
49.3
86.6

100.0

84.5
42.3
27.4
20.8

19.8
32.4
40.3
38.8
51.2
57.3
53.0
63.4
25.7
38.3
58.5
40.3
100.0

34.7
22.5
56.6
52.4
42.4
53.1
35.3
41.1
91.4
36.3
98.2

55.6
42.9
40.1
26.4
74.4
29.2
28.0
74.5
24.6
31.5
48.1

88.0

42.3
29.8
19.2
19.3
33.9
40.2
54.5
56.8
64.2
50.0
63.1
28.4
35.4
57.3
41.3
98.6
34.9
22.9
55.7
54.9
57.3
54.3
33.4
37.4
89.2
38.7
98.2
53.0
43.4
40.9
27.0
76.6
36.0
27.1
73.5
22.1

33.3
46.0

35.0
82.9
94.2
21.7
78.6
46.4
56.5
91.6
91.5
26.4
53.7
91.6
86.9
41.7
27.6
17.5
17.2
34.3
32.6
48.2
63.4
66.3
48.7
60.7
33.3
30.6
58.3
38.8
95.9
38.0
22.4
52.3
58.1
66.8

49.1
32.6
35.7
87.9
38.7
97.3
56.1
44.4
40.4
23.9
73.2
46.8
44.5
74.0
19.7
32.8
38.3

1.4

4.4
2.5
2.1

5.5
7.2
5.0
18.1
5.4
2.9
2.4

8.4
.6

.2

3.3
1.9
9.4

2. 6

7.7

12.2

9.0
7.6

3.3

4.3
2.7

5.7
24.4

2.4

10.0

11.6

12.9
1.4
8.3
7.9

12.7
8.1

13.6
1.5
7.9

10.5
7.9

30.8

1J .0

7.8

8.2

3.6
5.4
9.8
14.7
12.4
12.3

2.7
5.5
9.5
14.3

3.6

8.2

13.2
7.2
6. 1

5.6
8.3
15.0
6.0

.2

10.1
10.6

1.5
4.1
4.3

4.0
2.7
5.4
3.5
.9

5.5
1.5
.3
2.5
1.2

17.6
16.5
1.3

9.8

7.7

.1

*Based on Total Deposits as of June 30.



6.5

Smallest 50 per cent of
Banking Organizations in States
With More than 20 Banking Organizations
Change in Market
Shares: 1957 to 1967
Per cent
_+_
1957
1961
1967

.5
4.9
9.8

13.8
12.7
12.2

1.7
8.7
12.7

1.1

4.9

12.0
12.0

8.9

11.0
6.8

5.2
5.3
8.4
14.3
6.5
9.6
10.8

13.3
12.2
10.1

2.0
8.2

1.5
7.1
11.4
5.7
9.8
3.4
7.4

9.6
13.0

12.6

6.1

8.5

6.2

7.2
5.7
18.5
11.3
2.4
14.0

11.0
12.7

9.6
6.3
7.2

.6
.6

12.8

.4

10.4
14.9
11.3
8.4
10.9
5.7
4.4
5.1
8.4
14.7
7.9
8.7
9.9
13.2
10.5
13.6

10.0

3.2
6.3

8.9
12.5
7.1
8.0

12.1

13.8

.2

1.0
.2

.1

1.9

7.9
2.4
16.2
11.4
14.8

2.3
1.5
1.7
.5
.3
1.4
.7
.6

1.4

1.2

4.4
12.4
5.6

14.3
11.5
10.8

.5
.3

6.0

5.3

15.3

.4
3.8

I

6.0

2. 2

1.8

1.5
1.2

.9
.8

2 .2

.4

2.1

2. 2

.5
4.3
.3
.5
1.9
.7
.5
.4
6.4
3.4