The banking industry has one of the most active markets for mergers and acquisitions.
However, little is known about the type of operational strategies adopted by banking firms in …

This article presents an analysis of the determinants of Chinese commercial banks' income
diversification decisions. Using a panel dataset comprising 88 Chinese domestic banks from …

The bancassurance (ie, bank and insurance company combinations) model for financial firm
architecture has been widely used in Europe and recently has been adopted by US financial …

Abstract The Financial Services Act of 1986 prompted changes to remove the regulatory
hedges among financial institutions. The present work sets out to explore the non …

Bancassurance has enjoyed considerable success in Europe, but this concept is relatively
new for Asian countries, having emerged only in 2002. Thus, the aim of this paper is to …

The purpose of this paper is to look at the main empirical findings related to the bank‐
insurance model and to outline the market practices across the world. The market dynamics …

Bancassurance seems to be a naive concept for a country like Bangladesh, but it has gained
immense popularity in developed and some of our neighboring countries. It is an alliance of …

We investigate the risk effects of bank acquisitions of insurance companies and securities
firms between 1991 and 2012 using a newly constructed dataset of M&A deals. We examine …

The current study examines the effects on shareholders wealth as a result of the bank–
insurance interface. Using a global sample of financial intermediaries and an event-study …

The methodological approach to the assessment of bank-insurance integration (BII) level in
Ukraine based on the calculation of integration index using of binary characteristics and …