The move was the third major banking merger in five weeks.

Q. People justify banking mergers by saying there are too many banks.

IS now the time to bet on the biggest banking merger in the nation's history?

The acquisition will be the largest banking merger in Latin American history.

It shied away from the wave of banking mergers so prevalent in recent years.

Other recent banking mergers have also occurred as a result of opportunism.

It is one of the largest banking mergers ever.

Yet the more recent history of failed banking mergers in Germany is enough to give one pause.

The $1.9 billion deal is the largest American interstate banking merger.

So far this year his team served as advisers on $197 billion of domestic banking mergers, nearly half all announced.