Malawian banking industry has undergone seismic transformation over the past twenty years. It has been two decades of plethora of new entrants followed by acquisitions propelled by minimum paid capital requirements which have forced smaller banks to be absorbed by bigger banks. The barriers of...

Very often business acquisition is associated with the introduction of new products, new markets and increase in the market share of the investee probably as a result of the increase in the economies of scale. This is usually anticipated in view of the intense due diligence exercise which...