Banc One Case

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Banc One Corporation is the largest regional bank holding company headquartered in Ohio, as one of the most typical regional banking in the United States with $76.5 billion of asset base. By differing from the organization structure of other tranditional bank holding corporations (in which the parent controlled all its subsidiary banks), Banc One Corporation has a typical corporate structure known as three-tiered organizational structure. This structure allows the parent company, Banc One Corporation controlled 5 state bank holding companies, and in turn, these state banks owned 42 subsidiaries or affiliates. Therefore Banc One Corporation actually owned a large branch of banks and a aggregate of 78 banking affiliates through its Regional …show more content…

● Decentralize “people” side of the business: Delegating the decision-making and operational responsibilities to affiliates managers to gain a better knowledge about local customers and local markets. Without removing the management team of target companies acquired
● Centralize “paper” of the business: Such as data processing, back office operations and record keeping activities. Requiring highly investment on its computer and information system.
● Over time, massive investment has made in its technology and information systems to support the strategy on the belief that information played a vital role for such a decentralization structure. The Management Information and Control System were used in collecting useful information and then disseminating back: all affilates have to input their performance results and revised budgets frequently and receive a full report summarizing comparative statistics by ranking their relative performance in return.
● Promoting healthy competition among banking affiliates and incentivizing all affiliates managers to share information about effectively marketing of bank products or …show more content…

Initially the share was trading at $48 and then it dropped to $36 in November 1993. Finally, Banc One’s share price was very close to the walkaway value of $34.55. If it was below $34.55 when the deal was expected to be finished on the second quarter of 1994, the deal would be either cancelled by Liberty National or end up by paying with undervalued stock by Banc One. Thus, a low stock price would negatively affected the pending accusation of Liberty National Bancorp.

The most important reason among various factors that casue a falling share price is investors growing concern over huge utilization of interest rate derivatives.
● Investors are not comfortable with so much derivative exposure.
● Banc One has already pre-empt concern over its growing derivative portfolio as a means to get rid of interest rate risk.
● derivatives especially swaps are too complex and beyond the knowledge of investors.
As a result, the investors are valuing Banc One’s share value

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