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Originally published at BankDirector.com By: John Wilson Recent trends indicate that many bankers are considering adding significant scale by targeting peer institutions for outright acquisition. These transactions, which we call "peer mergers," are comparable to so-called "merger of equals," except that the management team, operational structure and culture of the acquiring institution will mostly remain the same for the combined institution. This avoids the most obvious difficulty with successfully executing a merger of equals: combining two institutions without one...