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Credit card no longer local
F&M Bank has sold its credit card business to UMB Financial Corp., a bank holding company based in Kansas City, Mo.
I learned this through a form letter from F&M informing me it would no longer issue my F&M credit card. I'm disappointed, but not surprised. These are hard times for the credit business.
I understand F&M needs to do what's best for stockholders, without regard to customers' preferences. In my case, I carried this card so I could have a locally issued and controlled card, but there's no reason for me to continue using just another holding-company credit card. Further, there's a forced change from MasterCard to VISA. So I'll cancel it.
Meanwhile, I hope that F&M itself isn't soon acquired by UMB, which says on its Web site that it currently owns "135 banking centers" in seven states from the Midwest to Arizona.
Bill Rogers
Lodi

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