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Avoiding The M&A Failure Trap: Q&A With NYU’s Baruch Lev And SUNY Buffalo’s Feng Gu

Global Finance

Baruch Lev is Philip Bardes professor emeritus of Accounting and Finance, Kaufman Management Center, Leonard N. Together, they recently published The M&A Failure Trap: Why So Many Mergers and Acquisitions Fail, and How the Few Succeed (Wiley). Global Finance: Why did you write this book now?

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European Banks Pursue Mergers To Gain Competitive Edge

Global Finance

Lenders across Europe are ramping up M&A efforts to scale operations, strengthen balance sheets, and navigate an evolving financial landscape. With interest rates stabilizing and capital reserves at healthy levels, banks are taking advantage of strategic acquisitions to fuel growth and enhance profitability.

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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: M&A

Global Finance

Persistent inflation and volatile interest rates defined much of the M&A landscape in 2024, dampening buy-side confidence even as activity gained momentum. Since the beginning of this year, global M&A activity has totaled $418.9 billion (about $7 billion) acquisition of British financial services company Hargreaves Lansdown.

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Nordic Finance: M&A And Partnerships Fuel Bank Growth

Global Finance

The surge in collaborative deals between traditional banks and fintech disrupters is helping finance houses develop deeper competence in next-generation digital and artificial intelligence offerings across core areas such as risk management, data analytics, robo-advisors, portfolio management, and fraud detection and prevention.

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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Global Winners By Sector

Global Finance

You saw some big [TMT] deals in the US, but also here in Europe, McKinseys Mieke Van Oostende, a senior partner in Brussels and co-leader of the consultancys global M&A practice, tells Global Finance. The GEM sectors wave of M&A was driven by the race for resource security. Mineral resources also took center stage.

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FP&A’s Scope: What Is In And What Is Out?

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FP&A is an evolving function that falls into the intersection of finance, operations and strategy aimed at driving better decision-making trough insightful analysis, forecasting and goal setting. As FP&A professional, how often do you feel that you do something you shouldnt? So, the scope of FP&A: what is in and what is out?

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Japan: Regional Bank M&A On The Rise

Global Finance

While the decline of regional banks in Japan can be traced as far back as the mid-1980s and 1990s, led mainly by a series of bankruptcies up until around 2003, the precipitous drop since the mid-1990s has been mainly due to mergers and acquisitions.