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As with industrial and commercial companies, there has been a marked increase in recent years in the numbers and importance of take-overs and mergers by banks and other financial companies. This note introduces a new series of quarterly statistics of such transactions, intended to complement the figures for industrial and commercial companies published by the Department of Trade and Industry.
Acquisitions and mergers by financial companies