3/5  BIS central bankers' speeches  4 What role for bank mergers & acquisitions? So far, I have answered the question as to what banks and policymakers should do. That leads to the question – certainly in this room, at least: What role can mergers & acquisitions play?
In the last few weeks, some have argued in public debate that competition in the banking sector is too high, which, in turn results in low profitability of banks. Quite often this was then linked to the number of banks being too high.