The CEO of ING said there are too many banks in Europe, making the sector inefficient. Meanwhile, the policy stance taken by U.S. regulators will encourage dealmaking, according to UBS' boss.

2024 was a better year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the UK and Europe than 2023, although overall growth in the market was slow. Deal numbers, by both absolute volume and aggregate deal ...

The Bank of Italy will carefully screen proposed bank takeover bids that will ultimately be decided by investors, but it ...

"However, the gap to US banks is likely to grow as European banks' franchises are less skewed towards Investment Banking which will benefit from M&A and deregulation as well as Markets businesses ...

There are indications that European M&A may continue to pick up in 2025 as buyout companies seek to deploy record quantities of unspent capital. While there have been fears that banks would come ...

Top European law firms MoFo, Eversheds, CMS, and McDermott are strengthening their competition, M&A, and real estate ...

At its current trajectory the firm could even fall out of the top 25 global M&A advisers in the next decade. Conversely, this need for American and European M&A strength along with top-level ...

Another hurdle in the merger between media giant Paramount (PARA) and Skydance has been passed, though from the looks of it, ...