Contents
1. Global Financial Services Reconfiguration 3
2. The Global Financial Services M&A Deal Flow 35
3. Why Financial Services Mergers? 60
4. Managing Financial Services Mergers and Acquisitions 99
5. The Special Problem of IT Integration 129
6. What Is the Evidence? 153
7. Mergers, Acquisitions, and the Financial Architecture 201
8. The Key Lessons 227
Appendix 1: Financial Service Sector Acquisitions 237
Appendix 2: Case Studies 263
References 281
Suggested Readings 289
Index 301