The Bank Cross-border M & A Motivation Analysis

Along with the fifth M&A wave of corporation in the global scope, the second cross-border M&A of banking has been going through. Because of the brevity since it became a very important economic phenomenon, there is a lot to study, for example, why did the banks prefer cross-border M&A of banking to Greenfield investment? What caused the cross-border M&A of banking to happen in common? Since our country has been a member of World Trade Organization (WTO), our financing industry will be mixed together to the world more rapidly and intensely, which stirs the financial activities with banking activities as the body across national boundary to be global ones. What shall the commercial banks do in the cross-border M&A? what shall we do to establish and consummate the management system for cross-border M&A of foreign-capital banks? This dissertation is to solve the above questions and it consists of four chapters.Chapter 1 provides a critical recommend on the cross-border M&A of banking. After the short presentation of the dissertation topic, a historical review of cross-border M&A of banking has been given. In order to get an explicit knowledge of it, the advantage and shortness have been discussed successively.Chapter 2 elaborates the existing mainly M&A theory and analyzes the applicability for cross-border M&A of banking. Because the theories deliberate M&A from different point of view separately, it is considered that they can't give a satisfactory and overall explanation to cross-border M&A of banking.Chapter 3 is devoted to "factor-analysis theory". It is based on the commercial banks' decision-making process to cross-border M&A. through studying the need, motivation and target of cross-border and analyzing the main factors related to it, the writer try to give a logical and full explanation to the cause of cross-border M&A of banking.Chapter 4 provides an analysis on our commercial banks' reflection to the international cross-border M&A and it also gives a consideration about the establishment of management system to foreign-capital banks' merging our commercial banks.