Mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector

This bachelor's thesis focuses on mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector, which represent an important investment activity of banks. The theoretical part of the thesis is dedicated to the general motives that lead to these activities, with a gradual inclination to the banking environment in the EU. Attention is also paid to the successfulness of these operations, from which the reader can become familiar with the results of observations, focused on five large European bank acquisitions. In a similar manner, further observations are applied to the Czech banking environment, specifically in three cases of bank mergers. The influence of the global financial crisis on these activities is mentioned in the last part of the thesis