CORPORATE MERGER AND ACQUISITION AS A TOOL FOR BANK SURVIVAL AND GROWTH (case study of Amal Bank’s acquisition by BoA) 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Amidst the concerns raised that Ghana has too many banks and the Ghc 60 million recapitalization requirements for indigenous banks‚ the Bank of Ghana is urging mergers and acquisition among the country’s banks. This comes in response to fears that the local banks can hardly meet the recapitalization requirement without losing their indigenous
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important reasons for mergers or amalgamations: 1. Economies of scale. An amalgamation company will have more reasons at its command that the individual companies. This will help in increasing the scale of operations and the economies of large scale will be available. These economies will occur because of more intensive utilization of production facilities‚ distribution network‚ research and development facilities‚ etc. these economies will be available in horizontal mergers were scope of more
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Key Financial Relationships: Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank of America and Wells Fargo are separate banks‚ however; both of these institutions share many similarities when reporting their financial statements. The inter-relationships of the data provided in the statements seem to exemplify the correlation of accounting practices between these two banks. As large as these two banks have become‚ and as complex‚ one can see that the banks’ roots are still tied firmly to the basic accounting
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INTRODUCTION Bank of America‚ one of the top financial institutions in the United States of America and Wikileaks‚ described by many as the probably the biggest whistleblower in recent history are in for a colossal battle. Bank of America is on the defensive end as to whether one of its executives lost a hard drive containing information that if and when released could cause the bank to crumble to the ground. On the other hand‚ Wikileaks allegedly has this hard drive in its possession and has
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MJacob Bliberg (jb3975@stern.nyu.edu) Jasper Buntinx (jasper@buntinx.eu) April 2013 Post-Acquisition Report Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) $6.8Bn acquisition of Cephalon‚ Inc. (NASDAQ: CEPH) – October 14‚ 2011 | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) is a leading global pharmaceutical company which develops‚ produces and markets affordable generic drugs. Teva is the world’s largest generic drug maker‚ with a direct presence in about 60 countries. Teva’s
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INTRODUCTION 1 II. MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS DEFINED 1 III. WHY M&A? 1 A. PERFORMANCE 1 B. MARKET FACTORS 2 C. METHODS 2 IV. ISSUES 2 A. CULTURE AND EMPLOYEES 3 B. LEADERSHIP 3 C. CUSTOMERS 3 D. VEBLEN AND GOODWILL 4 V. MAKING M&A SUCCESSFUL 4 A. COMPANY TYPE 4 B. IDENTIFICATION OF OPPORTUNITIES 5 C. SPEED OF INTEGRATION 5 D. CUSTOMERS 6 E. COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE 6 VI. CONCLUSIONS 6 VII. OBSERVATIONS 8 REFERENCES 9 I. Introduction This paper presents the issues with mergers and acquisitions
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HUTCH & VODAFONE MERGER A brief study on Voodafone’s purchase of stake in Hutchison Telecom International GLOBSYN BUSINESS SCHOOL HUTCH "Hutch" is the GSM mobile network of Hutchison Teleco Limited‚ which is a fully owned subsidiary of Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited (HTIL)‚ a listed company in the New York and Hong Kong stock markets. HTIL is a leading provider of telecommunications services‚ operating or rolling out mobile telecommunications services in 9 countries‚ offering
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COMPAQ MERGER LIST OF TOPICS S. No. | TOPIC | 1 | Executive Summary | 2 | The IT Industry Profile | 3 | Introduction to the Company Profile – HP and Compaq | 4 | Pre-Merger stats for HP and Compaq | 5 | Relative Performance of HP and Compaq | 6 | HP-Compaq Merger | 7 | Objectives of the Merger | 8 | Expectations from the Merger of HP and Compaq | 9 | Key Points that encouraged the Merger Decision | 10 | Advantages of Merger and Opposition to the Merger |
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The Failure of Mergers and Acquisitions Name Professor Institution Course Date THE FAILURE OF MERGERS AND QUISITIONS 2 RUNNING HEAD: THE FAILURE OF MERGERS AND QUISITIONS 1 The Failure of Mergers and Acquisitions Name Professor Institution Course Date The success of a any merger and acquisition is directly proportional to the level of planning that is involved. A lot of organisations do not spend enough time to
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Journal of International Development: Vol. 4‚ No. 6‚ 567-581 (1992) THE APPROPRIATE ROLE OF AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES PETER B. R.HAZELL* Agriculture and Rural Development Department‚ The World Bank Abstract: Multiple-risk crop insurance programmes have proven expensive to governments but have not lived up to their expectations. Many agricultural risks cannot be insured on a financially sound basis‚ but there is scope for increased insurance of farm assets‚ of the
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