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A wide-ranging analysis of why banks failed, or nearly failed, in the G-10 countries during the volatile years since 1980, and what governments need to do now to solve the ever-growing problem.

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Examines bank failures in selected hotspots and crises that spread from them around the world in 1997.

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Twelve essays reflect various aspects of mega-mergers. They discuss the history of acquisitions during the last hundred years (and during the last ten especially), industry consolidation, bank mergers, risk management systems, and the difficulties mergers face. Case studies detail mergers in Switzer

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Their views provide an unusual survey of current thinking in the domains of banking and finance, and an important source of current information, background, and foresights for banking and finance practitioners, students, and academics.

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Bank failures, crises, global banking, megamergers, changes in technologythe effect of these world events is to weaken existing methods of regulating bank safety and soundness, and even to make some methods ineffective.

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Usually associated with large bank failures, the phrase too big to fail, which is a particular form of government bailout, actually applies to a wide range of industries, as this volume makes clear.