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GGD-82-53 1 (1982-08-16)

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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL



Report To The Congress


OF THE UNITED STATES





Bank Merger Process

Should Be Modernized

And Simplified



Federal agencies do not have uniform crite-
ria for evaluating proposed mergers and, as
a result, make conflicting assessments of
mergers.

Unlike nonbanking commerce, Federal
banking laws do not provide for shell corpo-
rations to facilitate the takeover of total
ownership of an entity. Bank holding com-
panies or stockholders are using a complex
merger process to obtain total ownership of
a bank. This process, which could be simpli-
fied, is expensive, time consuming, and
burdensome.

This report contains recommendations to
the Congress and the three Federal banking
agencies to modernize and simplify the
laws and procedures used by the agencies
to assess and approve bank merger
applications.









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AUGUST 16, 1982


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