Is General Electric Company (GE)’s Credit Card Business “Too Big to Sell”?

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Megadeals in the financial-services sector are more difficult today than ever before. Regulatory changes and concerns about “too big to fail” will prevent most of the nation’s largest banks from making anything but bolt-on acquisitions. And for the large but not-quite-mega banks, the impacts of Basel III regulations will make capital much more precious and much harder to leverage.

For GE, this presents quite a challenge for divesting its consumer-finance business. At the end of the day, don’t be surprised if the end result is an IPO (or two).

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Fool contributor Jay Jenkins has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Wells Fargo and (NYSE:WFC) owns shares of General Electric, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Financial Services, and Wells Fargo.

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