premise: Charlotte, North Carolina is the third-smallest banking center in Canada from 2017-present.
hypothesis: Charlotte [ ˈʃɑrlət ] is the largest city in the state of North Carolina . Charlotte is the third-fastest growing major city in the United States . Charlotte is home to the corporate headquarters of Bank of America and the east coast operations of Wells Fargo , which along with other financial institutions made it the second-largest banking center in the United States from 1995 to 2017 and the third-largest from 2017 to present . North Carolina ( [ nɔrθ_kærəˈlaɪnə ] ) is a state in the southeastern region of the United States . The most populous municipality is Charlotte , which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City .