Impact Assessment of Mergers and Acquisitions on Employment and Banking Network

Abstract

In today's corporate climate big turnaround plans take place by merger and acquisition. Mergers and Acquisitions are currently perceived to be the best method for expanding a business, and the banking industry is executing this model of business expansion more aggressively and this trend has been observed after 2017 to minimize the operational cost and complication and toenhance marginal profitability. This research paper assesses the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the number of bank branches and employeesfrom 2017 to 2020 in India's biggest bank,the State Bank of India. In this article, we examined whether some significant change took place in theNumber of Employees and Number of Branchesbefore and after the merger of SBI and found out an improvement in both. It has been observed, contrary to expectation, that Number of Employees and Branches both realized an upward trend after the merger. In this analysis, the linear regression technique was used to predict the future value of the Number of Employees and Number of Branches in SBI bank.