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Table 4 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 4

 

 

Entry and Exit in Banking, 1980-1997

 

 

Number

 

 

 

 

 

Bank branches

(insured commercial banks)

 

 

Year

 

New insured commercial banks

 

Failure of insured commercial banks

 

Mergers and acquisitions

 

 

Openings

 

 

Closings

 

1980

 

206

 

10

 

190

 

2,099

 

267

1981

199

7

359

2,175

332

1982

316

32

420

1,575

393

1983

366

45

428

1,281

547

1984

400

78

441

1,363

869

1985

318

116

475

1,407

596

1986

248

141

573

1,250

748

1987

212

186

649

960

942

1988

228

209

468

1,509

1,042

1989

201

206

350

1,730

687

1990

175

158

366

2,722

884

1991

107

105

345

2,273

1,428

1992

73

98

401

1,644

1,675

1993

59

40

436

1,944

1,733

1994

48

11

446

2,713

1,151

1995

110

6

345

2,526

1,489

1996

148

5

313

2,487

1,870

1997

207

1

n.a.

3,122

1,636

Total

3,621

1,454

7,005

34,780

18,289

 

Sources: Failure data are from Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Statistics on Banking 1934-1996, vol. 1. Mergers and acquisitions data are from Stephen A. Rhoades, ABank Mergers and Industrywide Structure, 1980-1994,@ Staff Study, Federal Reserve Board, 1996. Updated by author. New bank and branch openings and closings are from the Federal Reserve Board, Annual Statistical Digest, relevant years.

 

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