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Bank consolidation – significance, valuation and consequences

The growth of efficiency and profitability are basic goals of every bank management. Prevailed opinion is that these aims can be realized through the growth in scale and scope of their business operations. This growth can be internal – by increasing the scope and the number of own activities, or external – by taking over or acquiring business activities of other companies. The latter form of growth, consolidation or conglomeration is becoming more and more important. The purpose of this paper is to point to the main causes, motives and characteristics of banking conglomeration, the phenomenon which has prevailed in developed financial systems and has growing importance in transitional and other less developed countries.

bank; consolidation; merger; acquisition; valuation; efficiency

Rad je prihvaćen za objavljivanje u zborniku konferencije čije se objavljivanje očekuje tijekom 2006. godine.