Companies announcing bold transactions provide headlines for the business media, but the real—and often more decisive—drama in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) happens outside of public view, during the process of integrating areas such as treasury management.
A 2018 Deloitte study found that nearly 30 percent of businesses are aggressively seeking acquisitions to extend or diversify their product line, expand their customer base, and/or capture new technology. As financing costs remain relatively low despite recent interest rate hikes, acquisitions are currently a preferred driver of growth for many companies. This deal-making is keeping treasury managers busy identifying, gauging, and minimizing the operational and organizational risks inherent in such transactions.
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