North America
After looking at the first quarter results for many of the banks and securities houses in the US, you could be forgiven for thinking that nothing has changed much in the past year. Most produced very healthy results, some had record quarters.
Mergers and takeovers have continued, of course, but not in the same vein as last year. There have been no domestic link-ups on the scale of Citicorp-Travelers, BankAmerica-NationsBank or BancOne-First Chicago; instead, consolidation has seeped one level lower, to the likes of Fleet-BankBoston and, just last month, the $5.9
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