It is also the largest-ever transatlantic financial services merger.
Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, calculates a potential hit of 28% to Bear Stearns' 2008 earnings per share if income from fixed-income trading falls 20%, financial sponsor merger and acquisition dries up and it sees a 35% reduction in below-investment grade loans.
These companies are especially attractive given inefficiencies created by recent market volatility and reduced sell side research coverage in the wake of financial services industry merger activity.
For example : In the Lion City, the appointment of independent financial advisers in merger deals is not compulsory, though in most proposed combinations an adviser is appointed for each of the parties.
The abrupt departure from Citigroup of its president Jamie Dimon, supposedly a likely successor to co-chairmen Sandy Weill and John Reed, hit the share price and raised concerns about the meshing together of Citicorp and Travelers in the world's biggest-ever financial-services merger.
But Don Cruickshank, LSE chairman, said it was unrealistic to expect a unified set of financial regulations before the merger was agreed.
They involve less immediate financial commitment than a merger.
This will give CP All a certain scale and the potential to squeeze suppliers and cut costs (merger synergies in financial parlance).
Four big universal financial groups, created from the merger of six keiretsu into three, together with a regional bank alliance.
Nevertheless, longtime Mellon Chief Financial Officer Steven Elliott says the merger brought Mellon the scale necessary to profit rightly from its trust and custody business, calling it one of the two defining moments of the new Mellon.
The complaints have gotten a sympathetic ear on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have just gotten a proposal by the Treasury Department for a sweeping overhaul of financial market regulation, including the merger of the SEC with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and the reassignment of many of the SEC's enforcement duties to the stock exchanges and other self-regulatory agencies.
Ms Hyslop outlined the financial help while in Paisley to mark the merger of the town's university and Bell College.
Clearwire, already in financial difficulty, would be a casualty of this merger.
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He has even more reason to be pleased since a task-force on the future of financial services in Canada has concluded that the proposed merger between his bank and Royal Bank of Canada should be considered on its own merits and not disallowed outright.
The jewel in this merger is Liffe, originally the London International Financial Futures Exchange.
As U.S. equity markets and corporate balance sheets continue their remarkable comeback from the financial crisis that began in 2008, the recently announced merger between American Airlines and US Airways reminds us of the critical role that U.S. bankruptcy law, represented by Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, has played in the ongoing economic recovery.
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It said that the merger was part of the restructuring of the Spanish financial system.
The merger consideration takes into account the updated guidance and other financial information being released by Palm this afternoon.
This represents the first combined financial results of the company following the completion of its Azur Pharma merger on January 18, 2012.
Given a merger of Kaufhof and Karstadt seems unlikely, as its financial resources dwindle, a slow death at Karstadt may be the path to such a scenario.
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Aug. 31, 2012: American announces that it has signed an agreement to exchange confidential financial information with US Airways so that the two can study a potential merger.
It advised NYSE Group (nyse: NYX - news - people ) and its merger partner, Archipelago Holdings , last year, despite its financial stake in Archipelago and its seat holdings on the exchange.
The recent round of consolidation in the financial industry has given them another excuse to step up this process: merger partners need to prune holdings so that banks' combined stakes do not exceed 5% of a company's stock, the legal limit.
For all their outward chumminess, the course of true love has not run smoothly between Sandy Weill and John Reed, the co-chairmen and co-chief executives of the financial-services giant since it was formed in April 1998 by the merger of Citibank and Travelers.
As part of this process, we would expect to have full access to the senior management team of Dell, certain other key employees, Dell's independent accountants and Dell's records, financial and operating data and material agreements (including the schedules attached to the Merger Agreement).
The Dean Witter merger was undertaken with the aim of creating a one-stop shop for financial services, but so far no dazzling synergies have emerged.
The dismissal ends a legal drama that accused the financial markets' top cop of breach of fiduciary duty and negligent misrepresentation involving a Finra merger proxy.
Skeptical of the concept of a financial supermarket which was what Sandy Weill and John Reed said they were creating with the merger of Citi and Travelers, he walked into a branch and asked for a credit card.
"The stock sale was a way for Sirius to gain some financial flexibility at a time when it still faces losses with or without the XM Satellite Radio merger, " said Frederick Moran, an analyst at Stanford Group.
That means it will be even bigger than NYSE Euronext, the first and, at least for a short while, the biggest trans-Atlantic financial markets deal. (See: "New York Now, Euronext") Their merger was part of a global stampeded by exchanges to either find partners, or be left isolated in the rush to consolidate.
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