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- Financial Roundup: Bank Mergers, Fat Wall Street Bonuses, Paulson Backlash
- Financial Roundup: Bank Mergers, Fat Wall Street Bonuses, Paulson BacklashRE: Financial Roundup: Bank Mergers, Fat Wall Street Bonuses, Paulson BacklashIt is foolish of investment banks and other large financial services firms to dole out hefty bonuses given the current meltdown. The rationale for these outsized annual bonuses has always...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
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- CEO Compensation And Bank Mergers
- From the executive summary: ‘Recent bank mergers generally did not improve relative operating performance or produce positive abnormal returns to acquiring bank shareholders. The paper examines the relationship between mergers and CEO compensation in the middle of the 20th century. The paper concludes that compensation generally increases even if the...
- White papers 2000-02-01
- Cross-Border Bank Mergers: What Lures the Rare Animal?
- Although domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the financial services industry have increased steadily over the past two decades, international M&As were relatively rare until recently. This paper uses a novel dataset of over 2,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyze the determinants of international bank...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- Making mergers pay.(bank mergers)
- Bank Administration Institute's annual Retail Delivery Conference held in Las Vegas, NV, focused on bank mergers and acquisitions. Firstar Pres and CEO Jerry Grundhofer pointed out that justifying a bank's merger to shareholders should highlight capital management, profit growth and capital management. Boston Consulting Group VP John Garabedian expressed his...
- Research articles 1999-01-01
- Bank Mergers, The Market For Bank CEOs, And Managerial Incentives
- From the executive summary: ‘After large bank mergers, the compensation of the surviving bank's CEO often increases materially. Theories of executive compensation based on managerial productivity and optimal incentives suggest that changes in CEO compensation are related to the potential gains from the merger activities. Alternatively, compensation gains might result...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Where Do Merger Gains Come From? Bank Mergers From The Perspective Of Insiders And Outsiders
- Traditional studies fail to find conclusive evidence that bank mergers create value. The article analyzes a sample of the largest bank mergers between 1985 and 1996. For a subset of this sample, it obtains management estimates of projected cost savings and revenue enhancements. Its found that recent mergers appear to...
- White papers 2001-01-31
- Focusing Versus Diversifying Bank Mergers: Analysis Of Market Reaction And Long-Term Performance
- From the executive summary: ‘The paper explores the paradox of bank mergers: on an average, bank mergers do not create value yet the mergers continue to occur. The study explores that long-term efficiency is enhanced when the merger involves a relatively inefficient acquirer and payment is not made solely with...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Friendly hostility: bank mergers. (more mergers are expected to result from the European single currency, such as the recent bid by ABN Amro for Generale de Banque of Belgium)
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- Research articles 1998-05-30
- Dec 31 deadline for bank mergers can be met, says Zeti, BUSINESS TIMES
- Business Times Malaysia 07-21-2000 BANK Negara Malaysia says it is optimistic that all bank mergers under Malaysia's restructuring of the financial industry will be completed by December 31, but acknowledges that there are currently various di Business Times Malaysia ...
- Research articles 2000-07-21
- Valuation Contests In Private Bank Mergers
- Bank reorganizations, including "phantom mergers," may give rise to dissenters' rights for minority shareholders under both the state and federal banking systems. If minority shareholders feel they haven't been treated fairly, they can sue the bank for more money. Read the article to know about the valuation contests in private...
- White papers 1999-10-01
- Bank Mergers, Competition and Liquidity
- This white paper provides a model of the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, individual reserve management and aggregate liquidity risk. Banks compete in rates of differentiated loans, hold reserves against liquidity shocks and refinance in the interbank money market if shocks exceed individual reserves. Mergers can affect market...
- White papers 2002-04-23
- Do Bank Mergers Affect Federal Reserve Check Volume?
- The recent decline in the Federal Reserve's check volumes has received a lot of attention. Although switching to electronic payments methods and electronic check processing has been credited for much of that decline, some of it could be caused by changes following bank mergers involving Federal Reserve customer banks. This...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Bank mergers dry up in NY, leaving holdouts to struggle; Stocks, margins fade as high interest rates persevere; CEOs made wrong bet.(News)
- Byline: Tom Fredrickson After running at a boil for four years in the New York area, bank mergers have gone into a deep chill. Giants like Wachovia Corp., TD Banknorth Inc., Capital One and Sovereign Bancorp say they're too busy absorbing acquis...
- Research articles 2007-05-28
- Justice makes a comeback: recent bank mergers including some between small banks, have attracted the attention of the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust watchdog. (includes related articles on the Justice Department's five-factor merger test and on First
- Proposed bank mergers, both large and small, are once again being reviewed by the US Justice Dept for antitrust elements. After a perceived respite during the Reagan administration, Justice Dept investigators have begun looking into potential market dominProposed bank mergers, both large and small, are once again being reviewed by...
- Research articles 1992-08-01
- U.S. Bank mergers cause problems for low income areas, researchers say
- Bank mergers in the U.S. generate negative economic impacts on poor neighborhoods, resulting in an increase in property crime, researchers report in The Journal of Finance (April, 2006). The authors argue that bank mergers should be carefully regulated to prevent economic deterioration of the affected neighborhoods. Among the...
- Research articles 2006-04-24
- Bank Mergers and the 'Curse of Bigness'
- "Size, we are told, is not a crime. But size may, at least, become noxious by reason of the means through which it was attained or the uses to which it is put." -- Louis Brandeis One of the challenges of dealing with financial institutions that are "too big...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Bank Mergers and Crime: The Real and Social Effects of Credit Market Competition
- Using a unique sample of commercial loans and mergers between large banks, the paper provides micro level (within-county) evidence linking credit conditions to economic development and find a spillover effect on crime. Neighborhoods that experienced more bank mergers are subjected to higher interest rates, diminished local construction, lower prices, an...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Mexican Bank Mergers Healthy But Difficult Processes: Expert.
- MEXICO CITY, Jan 14, 2002 Some of the advantages of the recent wave of mergers and acquisitions in the Mexican banking system, including Citigroup's (NYSE:C) purchase of Banamex last year, are that the banks are now better financed, and have new products, many of...
- Research articles 2002-02-14
- Divestiture as an Antitrust Remedy in Bank Mergers
- The purpose of this study is to determine whether, from a public policy standpoint, divestitures constitute an effective antitrust remedy in bank merger cases. The findings suggest that divestitures of bank offices have generally provided an effective public policy remedy. Read on to know more on bank mergers, antitrust and...
- White papers 1998-01-12
- The Effects of Bank Mergers on Credit Availability: Evidence From Corporate Data
- A large literature on the effects of bank consolidation focuses on direct efficiency gains for participating banks and market power effects. The special nature of credit markets suggests that indirect informational effects for borrowers may be generated by bank consolidation. This report on investment and financing constraints also test whether...
- White papers 2003-06-01
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