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As holding company for the eight F&M Banks in Virginia and West Virginia, F&M National Corporation is proud of its most recent accomplishment But for F&M, there is much more than assets to celebrate.
This year, the brokerage firm of A. G. Edwards in St. Louis listed F&M among America’s strongest financial institutions. And U.S. Banker magazine recently ranked F&M the 33rd most profitable in the nation
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