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Banks’ Domestic & Cross-border M&As: Where Can They Go Wrong?

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  • George Mountis

    (Bank of Cyprus)

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The recent financial market turmoil has produced significant structural changes, and created historic opportunities for banking institutions to launch mergers with, and acquisitions of, competitors. Nevertheless, numerous institutions fail to anticipate strategic aspects that could affect the real value of such transactions. This is a well-established fact, but the reasons for it are less clear. This paper aims to assist banking professionals and institutions to improve the quality of their M&As, especially in an era where mistakes could have catastrophic effects on a bank’s balance sheet (B/S) and reputation. To address some of the strategic challenges, we shall review some practical measures that executives could put into practice to maximise and unlock synergies from M&As, and establish possible areas where mergers can go wrong. Additionally, the study explores the pre/post-merger financial performance of key M&As in the Greek banking sector, whilst reviewing prospects for the Cypriot banking sector. This paper contributes to the financial and strategic management literature by analysing key reasons whereby banks’ M&As (both cross-border and in-border) can go wrong. From the research, it has been established that such reasons include: errors in estimating real revenues and failure to account for income “dis-synergies”; income enhancement and cost-cutting incentives; the impact of “one-off” costs; timing; past experience; and organisational culture and integration strategy. This event-based study finds that from the combined view of the target and bidding Greek banks, M&A transactions are on average successful and create value. The emphasis on M&As, as an argument for the survival of Greek and Cypriot banks in the competitive European market, seems convincing, as significant economies of scale could be achieved. Nevertheless, the long-term success of the Greek and Cypriot banking sectors’ restructuring, via M&As, necessitates a more careful monitoring of the endogenous factors related to the banking operations. Banks’ strategists have to recognise that the strategic fit among merging banks is a critical element in determining the success or failure of a deal.

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  • George Mountis, 2012. "Banks’ Domestic & Cross-border M&As: Where Can They Go Wrong?," Cyprus Economic Policy Review, University of Cyprus, Economics Research Centre, vol. 6(1), pages 39-67, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:erc:cypepr:v:6:y:2012:i:1:p:39-67
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