The widely publicized banking takeover battle sustained by the British Barclays and a consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland that included the Dutch Fortis and the Spanish Santander, for the Dutch ABN AMRO, took place during six months, from March through October of 2007. The myriad legal...

Extreme volatility and high uncertainty characterized European financial markets between 2010-2012. In addition to the "financial contagion" effects of the 2007-2009 Subprime Mortgages crisis, the European financial markets' turbulence was also related to a more fundamentally economic reality:...

The increase in the concentration of the banking industry across European Union countries during the last fifteen years can be explained in terms of: a) global factors, like the comprehensive adoption of technological innovations, the intensification of competition that has resulted from the...