{"id":6635,"date":"2007-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"wal-mart-wins-approval-to-run-banking-centers-in-mexico-afp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2007\/wal-mart-wins-approval-to-run-banking-centers-in-mexico-afp.html","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart wins approval to run banking centers in Mexico     (AFP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  AFP-The world&#8217;s biggest retailer, <span class=\"yshortcuts\">Wal-Mart Stores, Inc<\/span>., said Wednesday it had won approval from Mexico&#8217;s government to open banking centers in its Mexican stores.<\/p>\n<p>  A spokesman for <span class=\"yshortcuts\">Wal-Mart<\/span> de <span class=\"yshortcuts\">Mexico<\/span>, Wilfred Castro, said the US retail giant was initially planning to open between 10 and 15 new  banking centers in the country.<\/p>\n<p>  Wal-Mart said it won approval to operate bank branches from the Mexican Banking Commission on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  Branches of Banco Wal-Mart de Mexico Adelante will be located in existing Wal-Mart stores and retail outlets.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;With Banco Wal-Mart we will be able to complement the services we provide to the segment of the population that currently lacks the benefits of having accessible banking services,&#8221; the president  and chief executive of Wal-Mart&#8217;s Mexican operations, Eduardo Solorzano, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/business\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20071003\/bs_afp\/mexicouswalmartcompanyretailbanking\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP-The world&#8217;s biggest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., said Wednesday it had won approval from Mexico&#8217;s government to open banking centers in its Mexican stores. A spokesman for Wal-Mart de Mexico, Wilfred Castro, said the US retail giant was initially planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}