Viewpoint: Managing Risk Key to Success with a Failure

With organic growth hard to achieve today, many banks are considering acquiring failed banks from the FDIC, expecting that their expertise in traditional acquisitions will be an advantage.

FDIC acquisitions are a high-stakes race, where days, even hours, determine winners. Players need a playbook as detailed and decisive as their traditional M&A playbooks but expressly designed for the purpose, ready to deploy at racing speed.