Disruptors Deconstructed

June 23, 2014, 11:00 a.m. EDT 1 Min Read

The recent proposal for the U.S. Postal Service to sell banking services invites comparisons to Walmart's equally controversial, and ultimately abandoned, 2005 bid for a banking charter. Both would-be financial industry game-changers are large and ubiquitous, but there are some notable differences.

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