Effect Of Bank Mergers And Acquisition On Small Business Lending In Nigeria

ABSTRACTBanks involve focal position in the nation's financial
framework and are fundamental specialists in the advancement procedure.
By intermediating between the surplus and shortage reserve funds' units
inside an economy, banks activate and encourage effective distribution
of national funds, in this manner expanding the quantum of ventures and
thus national yield. Thus, the study seeks to ascertain the effect of
mergers and acquisition on small business lending in Nigeria. Data was
sourced from the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the method of Ordinary
Least Squares (OLS) was a…