11.   Moreover, share prices of big acquiring banks have been depressed in the last year, making mergers less likely because most bank acquisitions are paid for with stock.

12.   Most bank acquisitions use the more favorable pooling of interest method, which eliminates goodwill expenses.

13.   Most bank acquisitions this year have been for about twice book.

14.   Most recent bank acquisitions have been for about twice book value.

15.   Rombach said the bank will seek other bank acquisitions.

16.   Shares of DLJ and other brokers have gyrated amid a spate of bank acquisitions of securities firms.

17.   Since then, six more bank acquisitions of brokerages have followed.

18.   The Countrywide takeover speculation follows two large independent mortgage bank acquisitions in recent months.

19.   The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation can approve minority bank acquisitions by minority holding companies without regard to asset size.

20.   The price is in line with other recent bank acquisitions, analysts said.