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List of bank mergers in the United States

This is a partial list of major banking company mergers in the United States.

Table

Mergers chart

This 2012 chart shows some of the mergers noted above. Solid arrows point from the acquiring bank to the acquired one. The lines are labeled with the year of the deal and color-coded from blue (older) to red (newer). Dotted arrows point to the final merged entity.

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