VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-23
“There's a massive race for scale, and the shot clock is running,”
Chris McGratty · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-23
McGratty commented on the competitive pressure and urgency driving bank consolidation.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.