板块【新朋友】点击标题下面蓝字【可可英语】加关注【老朋友】点击手机右上角图标【转发分享】内容中英文本Retail banks零售银行Bye bye America拜拜美国The sale of BBVA's American unit to PNC may set off a wave of mergers将BBVA的美国分部出售给PNC可能会掀起一股并购浪潮In May PNC, America's seventh-largest retail bank by assets, sold a stake in BlackRock, an asset manager, for $17bn. Bill Demchak, PNC's boss, said at the time that worries about the economy had prompted it to divest, in order to "bullet-proof" its balance-sheet. On November 16th he broke cover. PNC said it would buy the American arm of BBVA, Spain's second-largest bank, for $11.6bn. The deal could set off a scramble for scale on both sides of the Atlantic. Indeed, BBVA in turn said on the same day that it was in merger talks with Sabadell, anothe
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