Analysis of acquisitions which were carried out by Eurobank EFG

Abstract

On the theritory of Republic Serbia currently operates 30 banks of which the largest part are foregin-owned. Domestic banks were taken over by banking groups from Italy, Greece, France, Russia, Hungary and other countries. The subject of this research are transactions of acquisitions made by the Eurobank in Serbia. The first section provides description of purchase of National Savings Bank by the Eurobank and reasons why is it considered as an doubtful privatisation. The second part is the analysis of the most important indicatiors of Eurobank in the period from 2007-01.06.2015. The aim of this research is to examine how how the aforementioned acquisitions affected the operations of Eurobank in our market with a short reference to the imapct of the current debt crisis in Greece on the performance of Greek banks.

Keywords

• acquisition
• eurobank
• national savings bank