No similar commercial "basket" exists for bank or financial holding companies, which generally are prohibited from engaging in commercial activities under the GLB Act.
For example: in the Benelux region, the takeover of the Belgian Banque Bruxelles Lambert by the Dutch bank ING; in Scandinavia, the merger of the Finnish Merita Bank, Norway’s Nordbanken and Denmark’s Unidanmark to form Nordic Baltic Holding; and the recently announced merger of Germany’s HypoVereinsbank and Bank Austria.