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Florida Banking Translation: The Densest Corridor Market

Haiti, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic all run out of Florida, which makes Haitian Creole a first-tier banking language here.

Atlanta's Nigerian and Ghanaian corridors are large, growing, and named on almost no bank's language plan anywhere in the country for most banks.

Hawaii runs Philippines, Samoa, Tonga and Micronesia corridors, has the highest credit-union penetration in the country, and barely needs Spanish.

Boise resettles a new cohort every few years, so Idaho's second-tier banking languages rotate faster than any fixed plan can track for most banks.

Chicago runs one of the largest Polish remittance corridors in the country, and Polish appears on almost no American bank's language plan entirely.

Indianapolis holds one of the largest Chin communities in the country, and handing them Burmese is worse than handing them English for most banks.

Iowa runs on community banks serving meatpacking towns whose language needs are set by a single employer's recruiting decisions almost everywhere.

Kansas banks in more languages in Garden City than in Wichita, and the map moves with whichever plant recruited most recently across the whole state.

Louisville holds one of the largest Nepali-speaking banking populations in the country, and statewide data hides it completely almost everywhere.