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Supplement
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2009
Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (C)
by
Ryan D. Taliaferro, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
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Abstract
[Continuation of "A" and "B" cases.] Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining their asset servicing businesses – and realizing the $180 million of annual cost savings that they had promised Wall Street – were fraught with risk. Senior executives must evaluate the seriousness of the risks and identify alternative ways of integrating the two firms, while safeguarding the technologies that process and clear a substantial fraction of the world's financial transactions.
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions;
Horizontal Integration;
Financial Institutions;
Business Processes;
Risk Management;
Strategy;
Market Transactions;
Assets;
System;
Saving;
Banking Industry;
New York (state, US);