Download or read book Bank Merger Activity in the United States, 1994-2003 written by Steven J. Pilloff and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980¿2003 period the number of banking org. in the U.S. decreased from 16,000 to 8,000, and mergers of healthy institutions were by far the most important cause of that consolidation. During that period, the share of industry assets held by the ten largest commercial banking org. rose from 22% to 46%, and the share of industry deposits held by the ten largest rose from 19% to 41%. The database employed in this study consists of the vast majority of mergers between separately owned banking org. This study covers every transaction in which the target institution or one of its banking subsid. was chartered in the U.S. and in which the acquirer and the target were, or owned, a commercial bank, savings bank, s&l assoc., or industrial bank.