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Sample Excerpt

July 2008

The current news about bank mergers and acquisitions is there isn't much news. SNL Financial put it this way in a recent issue of the SNL Bank & Thrift Daily: "There were fewer than half as many bank and thrift deals in the first quarter of 2008 than in the year-ago quarter, and industry observers say most of the banks looking to sell these days are doing so out of necessity."