After the 2008 global financial crisis, U.S. bank holding companies needing to cover larger-than-expected loan losses … entities acquired by each holding company in the quarters prior to their mergers. As in the related literature, we fail to … finding suggests that holding companies built up provisions to some degree during the pre-crisis period to cover larger future …

, that requires large banks to maintain a minimum capital ratio. The Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) regulates capital of Bank … Holding Companies (BHC) through compliance Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) 2009 and Comprehensive Capital … risk management objective of capital adequacy, as bank managers are forced to take on more risk to meet the capital ratio …

This study sought to ascertain the effects of bank mergers and acquisitions on the performance of merged banks in Sub …-induced bank (M&A's) on the post-merger profitability of merged banks in SSA. The motivation for the study is to provide evidence … for or against the regulator's claims that regulation-induced bank M&As will improve the performance of merged banks in …

paired-sample t-test and GMM analysis indicate a significant positive impact of fintech and bank M&As on the operating …

/methodology/approach - This paper presents a model of the disciplinary takeover based on the efficient market hypothesis which provides … appropriate measures for it to examine the financial performance of acquiring banks after takeover. Findings - The results … indicate that the takeover market for large banks was ineffective in two aspects: the market did not distinguish strong banks …

the risk spreads of stand-alone banks and bank holding companies in Spain by including all outstanding rated bonds offered … statistically and economically significant coefficient for the introduced dummy variable. We found that bank-holding company bonds …Holding companies legally separate the assets and owners of a company creating a layer of liability protection …