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In a co-authored op-ed, Professor Richard Sylla examines the decline in the number of US banks

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Excerpt from World Financial Review -- "The disappearance of so many US banks, mostly by being absorbed into larger institutions, prompted us to write Genealogy of American Finance (2015). The book contains short, illustrated histories of the 50 largest financial holding companies recently operating in the United States, along with their 'family trees', that is, charts showing all the predecessor institutions that were acquired or merged together to form the current behemoths."

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