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Table 2 for testimony of Governor Laurence H. Meyer
Mergers and acquisitions in banking and other financial services
Before the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives
June 3, 1998

 

Table 2

 

 

Number of Large Mergers, 1980-1997*

 

 

Year

 

Number of large mergers

 

Number of large interstate mergers

 

1980

 

0

 

0

1981

1

0

1982

2

0

1983

5

0

1984

6

0

1985

9

4

1986

9

6

1987

18

11

1988

14

7

1989

3

2

1990

6

2

1991

16

12

1992

23

15

1993

15

10

1994

15

11

1995

20

16

1996

26

14

1997**

15

11

Total

203

121

 

* Where the acquiring firm and target bank are over $1 billion in assets. ** 1997 numbers are preliminary.

Source: Stephen A. Rhoades, ABank Mergers and Industrywide Structures, 1980-1994,@ Staff Study, Federal Reserve Board, 1996. Updated by author.

 

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