Integrated
Legacy Solutions (ILS), the leading provider of technology for image
and data migrations and conversions to the financial services industry,
today released its quarterly overview of bank merger and acquisition
data for the second quarter of 2018. Derived from data provided by the Federal
Reserve System, the research quantifies all U.S. bank M&A activity
occurring between April 2018 and June 2018 to monitor larger trends in
the space, including total mergers and acquisitions, activity by state
and region, the asset sizes of acquired and acquiring banks and
transaction pricing, among other insights.
There were a total of 65 bank M&A deals closed in Q2 2018, measuring up
similarly to Q1 and Q2 2017, which resulted in 62 and 65 closed deals
respectively. While closed M&A deal actively remained relatively flat
through Q2 2018, the number of M&A deals recently announced by U.S.
banks in Q2 appears to signal a more positive uptick in activity for the
second half of 2018. For example, the recent announcement of Fifth Third
Bank’s $4.7 billion acquisition of MB Financial appears to have signaled
the entry of some larger bank acquisitions that have previously been
under the radar and are expected to gain momentum moving into Q3 2018.
“Now that we’ve arrived at the halfway point in 2018, the industry is
not only benchmarking M&A activity in comparison to years past, but also
looking at recent trends in the space to predict what’s to come in the
second half of the year,” said Kris Bishop, founder and president of
ILS. “While we only saw 52 deals announced in Q3 2017, momentum seems to
be building for much stronger Q3 2018 as we saw 80 deals announced in Q2
alone and anticipate the average size and book price of these upcoming
M&A transactions to continue upward as a result.”
Other notable insights from the Q2 2018 research include:
“Although M&A numbers year-to-date are trailing behind the pace the
industry experienced this time last year, we still have a full six
months left in 2018 to increase momentum,” said Bishop. “With Q3 deals
starting to be announced, it’s projected to positively impact 2018’s M&A
numbers overall, we look forward to what the rest of the year has in
store for today’s changing financial industry.”
For additional insight on today’s M&A activity, download ILS’ full Q2
2018 report at: https://form.jotform.com/81914213637153.
About Integrated Legacy Systems
Headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., Integrated Legacy Solutions (ILS)
provides industry leading technology for legacy image and data
migrations and conversions to the financial industry. ILS’s leadership
team has performed data conversion for thousands of financial
institutions over their nearly 20 years in the business. Through its
flagship product, OmniView™ Browser, efficient business model and
focused expertise, ILS has designed innovative ways to “migrate” legacy
data much faster and less expensive than other costly and time consuming
methods of data conversion. ILS’s success is focused on 3 key areas;
customer service, the business (or conversion) process, and the latest
technology to convert or migrate legacy systems quickly with minimal
disruption to the client’s production environment. For more information,
visit: www.integratedlegacy.com.
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