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Ford is chairman of a pair of private equity funds that finished raising $1.28 billion at the start of October with the aim to buy weakened banks. At the same time, he has filed to start a national bank under the name Ford Bank Group.

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2008/10/27/story2.html

According to this his aspirations go beyond a regional West Coast operations. No?