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What M&A trends will transform the 2024 insurance landscape?
It is widely accepted that 2023 was one of the worst years in recent memory for M&A activity.
Publication | September 16, 2016
The transfer of the trillions of dollars that regularly move around the globe is accomplished through the use of accounts that the banks maintain with each other to settle those transfers, as well as for other banking services. These accounts, called correspondent accounts, are critical to the efficient functioning of the world’s financial system. Most of these accounts are maintained at large international banks (“correspondents”)—many of which are in the United States, European Union, Canada and other industrially developed countries. But banks in other countries (“respondents”) need accounts at those banks to handle funds transfers, other payments, etc., and if those large banks are reluctant to maintain accounts for them because the bank and/or the country are seen as a greater risk, then they may cut them off or charge them a larger fee to maintain the account.
There has been a troubling trend toward some banks terminating their correspondent banking account relationships with banks in certain areas of the world, and potentially to all the banks in particular countries, essentially isolating them from accessing the international financial system and adversely affecting that country's own local banking system.
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It is widely accepted that 2023 was one of the worst years in recent memory for M&A activity.
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The ongoing conflicts and further geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, coupled with upcoming elections in a number of key countries including the US and the UK, make 2024 challenging to predict what impact this will have on the insurance sector.
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On 6 September 2022, the European Commission (EC) prohibited Illumina’s acquisition of Grail, bringing to an end the administrative stage of a legal saga that has attracted interest beyond competition law specialists.
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