So You Think You Want to Buy a Bank?

March 26, 2010

The legal impediments to investing in a bank or thrift institution by a non-banking investor

By: David L. Glass

Albany Law Review

This article reviews the legal impediments to investing in a bank or thrift institution by a non-banking investor, and the efforts to date by the Federal Reserve which has authority over all acquisitions of a bank by any company, as well as the FDIC to facilitate such investments.

 

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