The Bank Merger Paradox

  • Steven I. Davis

Abstract

As the new millennium opens, no issue has preoccupied bank management more than their role in the merger consolidation process. From Japan to Europe and the US, the merger wave has engulfed banks of every description. Table 1.1 provides a statistical profile of the value of such mergers since 1991.

Keywords

Bank Merger Merger Process Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Major Merger Merger Wave 
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Notes and References

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    R. Harold Schroeder (Keefe, Bruyette and Woods), quoted in Smith, ‘The Revenue Chase’, Banking Strategies, Mar/Apr 1998, p. 74.Google Scholar
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    James Hance of Nationsbank quoted in ibid, p. 74.Google Scholar
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    McKinsey Quarterly, no. 4, 1997, p. 172.Google Scholar
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    Quoted in Pilloff and Santomero, Value Effects of Bank Mergers and Acquisitions, 1996.Google Scholar
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    Bank for International Settlements Quarterly.Google Scholar
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    Quoted in Cline, ‘Unlocking the Better in Bigger’, Banking Strategies, Sept/Oct 1998, p. 70.Google Scholar
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    Peristiani, in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, August 1997.Google Scholar
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    Amihud and Miller, Bank Mergers and Acquisitions, 1998, p. 60.Google Scholar

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© Steven I. Davis 2000

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