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Bank M&A activity is on pace to exceed pre-pandemic levels as institutions seek scale to combat the challenging earnings environment.
Bank M&A activity is on pace to exceed pre-pandemic levels as institutions seek scale to combat the challenging earnings environment.
A game plan for entering new geographic markets—without doing M&A.
President Biden today issued a wide-ranging executive order on competition issues across the U.S. economy.
Mergers create opportunities, but they also represent change, which can be unsettling if not communicated transparently and effectively.
In a move that would significantly reduce the annual reporting burden on banks, the Federal Reserve today proposed to automate non-merger-related adjustments to member banks’ subscriptions to Reserve Bank capital stock.
In response to shifting market dynamics and increasing competition in the financial services industry, the Federal Reserve is contemplating changes to its framework for antitrust analysis, Fed Governor Michelle Bowman told attendees at the American Bankers Association’s virtual Conference for Community Bankers today.
By streamlining their anti-money laundering operations, banks will not only maintain their defenses, but also their market share.
Expect the 2021 M&A environment to be shaped on the one hand by long-running pressures to sell balanced on the other hand by concerns about post-pandemic asset quality, the strengths of banks’ core businesses and valuation mismatches.
The crystal ball for 2021 might be statistically clear, but looking behind the numbers reveals competing pressures for and against continued industry consolidation.
The FDIC today released a large-scale Community Banking Study that examines community bank performance between year-end 2011 and year-end 2019.