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U.S. Banker September 2004 Holly Sraeel |
M&A Pace Picks Up, But To Whose Advantage? Banks have more than Eliot Spitzer to contend with as mergers pick up and bigger banks are created. There are shareholders, consumer activists and communities to worry about.  |
The Motley Fool April 24, 2007 Michael Leibert |
Bank of New York Never Sleeps Bank of New York and Mellon Financial produce solid results as they move toward merging. Shareholders should feel confident that steady profit growth will continue.  |
BusinessWeek February 9, 2004 |
Figuring Out If Banks Fit Together A talk with fund manager David Ellison about how he assesses the prospects of bank mergers working out  |
Managed Care November 2003 Jaan Sidorov |
Case Study of a Failed Merger of Hospital Systems What went wrong between Penn State and Geisinger, and what lessons should be learned?  |
CFO March 1, 2004 Kris Frieswick |
The Two Faces of Bank Mergers Despite all the talk about the "seamlessness" of the mergers being planned in the nation's fast-consolidating banking industry, CFOs of bank customers aren't all that convinced. And their concerns are both financial and personal: Will the merger of their bank hurt their access to capital, they ask? And how will their relationship with bank officers change?  |
The Motley Fool March 25, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Why Break Up the Big Banks? Here's Why Why in the world do these megamergers continue, despite the evidence against efficiencies created by them?  |
Bank Systems & Technology January 14, 2004 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Managing M&As Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the revived M&A market in financial services.  |
U.S. Banker February 2003 John Engen |
Blocking Consolidation in Canada Canadians' love-hate relationship with the "Big Five" banks -- the largest and best employers and sponsors of community activities like pee-wee hockey teams -- is at the core of their collective merger angst. With two mergers nixed, it's beginning to rub local bankers the wrong way.  |
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 David Grau |
Linked In As they look to recreate themselves, surprisingly few small financial practice owners consider mergers.  |
Job Journal March 20, 2005 Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Layoffs Test a Company's Compassion Sadly, eliminating jobs is the most immediate way corporate executives have to justify the cost savings they have promised in a merger. But firms can hurt themselves if they mishandle cutbacks. Bad treatment often backfires.  |
OCC Bulletin February 9, 2006 |
OCC Bulletin Subject: Community Reinvestment Act Description: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) encourages national banks to help meet the financial needs of their customers and their communities.  |
Bank Systems & Technology May 1, 2006 Katherine Burger |
Merger Season Despite their inevitability, mergers continue to be extremely difficult to manage for financial institutions, and even those that look good from a balance sheet perspective almost always disappoint in some key constituency, especially IT.  |
Salon.com November 21, 2002 Farhad Manjoo |
The Homeland Security merger mess A Harvard analyst says government consolidation won't improve the fight against terrorism quickly, and maybe not at all. The reason: Most big corporate mergers fail.  |
InternetNews June 24, 2005 Paul Shread |
Veritas-Symantec Merger Gets Shareholder Nod Shareholders approved the merger of Veritas and Symantec, clearing the way for one of the largest software mergers ever.  |
U.S. Banker November 2007 Paul Hyde et al. |
Mergers Create Mid-Sized Have-Nots Nearly two decades of steady banking industry mergers have created a landscape dotted with a group of banks struggling to survive in an undifferentiated no-man's land.  |
CRM May 15, 2015 Leonard Klie |
Influitive Launches Communities for Advocacy-Driven Marketing Influitive Communities allows marketers to create active B2B communities across the Web.  |
Search Engine Watch February 24, 2011 Jacob Morgan |
External, Hybrid, and Internal Communities: Why You Should Care Exploring three social communities and some typical business problems that effective engagement can solve.  |
HBS Working Knowledge November 21, 2005 Sean Silverthorne |
The Geography of Corporate Giving Why do companies support nonprofits and other socially responsible activities when there is no clear-cut evidence that corporate "do-gooding" results in greater returns for shareholders?  |
Bank Systems & Technology November 30, 2003 Katherine Burger |
Damning with Faint Praise The winner of last month's "Now you tell me!" award was Charles Prince, Citigroup's recently named CEO, who stated in a presentation about the institution's global corporate and investment bank, "The era of the transformational merger is over."  |
Bank Systems & Technology June 1, 2005 Ivan Schneider |
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em A new bill introduced by a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee would relax regulations for smaller community banks and also reduce their tax liability.  |
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 David A. Twibell |
Community Investing Special loan funds for underserved communities are popping up like condos. Now you can help clients jump into the lending pool.  |
PC Magazine August 31, 2011 Sascha Segan |
On AT&T/T-Mobile Merger, Justice is Served The Department of Justice dealt a heavy blow for consumers when it said it will oppose the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile.  |
Information Today June 18, 2015 |
EPA Mapping Tool Identifies Environmental Problem Areas The mapping and screening tool helps state and local government officials, researchers, and advocates locate communities facing environmental risks based on nationwide, consistent data.  |
Information Today April 18, 2013 |
Publishers' Online Communities to Double by 2015 The number of publisher-owned online communities is set to more than double over the next 2 years, according to new research released April 17, 2013 by Publishing Technology at The London Book Fair.  |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Bank of America and FleetBoston: Dud Deal? It was the third largest bank merger in history, promising to create a mega-bank that would span the country. But though bank executives promise economies of scale and cross-selling opportunities, investors have not been impressed.  |
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 |
Here Comes The Year Of The Deal Fallout from a new M&A boom could turn out to be a major unanticipated policy issue in 2005. Rapid consolidation could increase pricing power in many industries. It's the right time for the U.S. government's trustbusters to stay alert.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Nov/Dec 2002 Hoffman & Allen |
Homing in on Manufactured Housing Look to these communities to find investment opportunities.  |
On Wall Street September 1, 2011 |
Mary Mack During our merger with Wells Fargo, I co-led its wealth brokerage business, overseeing the eastern part of the country. Mergers provide important lessons.  |
Investment Advisor June 2010 James J. Green |
Catching Up With... Greg Friedman of Private Ocean and Junxure.  |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Profit From Arbitrage Sometimes you don't have to hit a home run to make money in the markets.  |
InsideFlyer June 2008 |
Business Travel Industry Eyes Delta/Northwest Eighty percent of those responding to a recent survey indicated that further consolidation of the U.S. airline industry by 2009 was "inevitable."  |
Salon.com May 25, 2000 Chris Colin |
Airline Merger United Airlines announced plans Wednesday morning to buy troubled US Airways for $4.3 billion, a deal that, if approved, would become the largest acquisition in airline history....  |
Bank Systems & Technology January 29, 2005 MacPherson, Perry & Phelan |
Doing Diligence Attempts to buy growth through M&As take forethought and care. At its best, an effective bank merger is a backstage production - smooth, well-orchestrated and invisible to an audience of consumers.  |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2007 Chuck Saletta |
Dueling Fools: NYSE Euronext Bear Don't mind the mergers. Watch the valuation. While NYSE Euronext has had a tremendous life as a public company, the future doesn't look nearly as bright.  |
Chemistry World March 2009 Derek Lowe |
Column: In the pipeline The author worries that mergers are upsetting the balance of the pharmaceutical ecosystem  |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2005 |
When Mergers Disappoint Not all mergers make sense -- so, as an investor, be skeptical.  |
InternetNews February 17, 2010 |
Tech Sector's M&A Climate Improving: Study Search, security and cloud computing are three of the most attractive markets for mergers and acquisitions in 2010 according to the latest study by PricewaterhouseCoopers.  |
CRM February 2, 2004 Martin Schneider |
Merging for Midmarket Dominance Acquisitions increase in popularity as CRM vendors look to capture share in the midmarket.  |
The Motley Fool February 20, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
On CEOs and Overconfidence Contrary to popular belief, mergers don't always reward shareholders.  |
CRM June 2010 |
Crumbling into Communities Even as Facebook's membership nears the half-billion mark, your customers are splintering into thousands of other communities. Whether or not these groups are yours, you need to pay attention.  |
Real Estate Portfolio May/Jun 2002 Merrie S. Frankel |
Manufactured Housing Sector Looks to Build on Improved Fundamentals Although it remains a small sub-sector of the commercial real estate industry, the manufactured housing market offers investors some interesting opportunities despite facing serious challenges...  |