text: Capitalizing on Fleet exodus  William B. Maag spent weeks meeting Sovereign Bancorp executives at obscure suburban restaurants, taking phone calls on the sly, and hashing out a business proposal at a country club near the New Hampshire border. While his colleagues at FleetBoston Financial Corp. vied for new jobs at Bank of America Corp. after the banks' merger, Maag realized early on that the ...
inputs: Capitalizing on Fleet exodus  William B. Maag spent weeks meeting Sovereign Bancorp executives at obscure suburban restaurants, taking phone calls on the sly, and hashing out a business proposal at a country club near the New Hampshire border. While his colleagues at FleetBoston Financial Corp. vied for new jobs at Bank of America Corp. after the banks' merger, Maag realized early on that the ...