The bank merger mania in the 80's and 90's the champ was Hugh McColl and what started out as the North Carolina Natl Bank (NCNB). NCNB bought up everything in sight in the 80's including most of Texas (Republic, FNB Dallas, M Bank, Midland) plus Citizens and Southern, Sun Banks, Maryland NB etc. etc. I've forgotten all the names. NCNB changed its name to Nationsbank and culminated in buying BofA in 1997. Insane really but Mccoll saw it all coming. The original NCNB was a middling Regional with 30 bil in assets and now the descendent (BofA) has 2 tril in assets.

Thus BofA is now HQ in Charlotte and Charlotte is one of the banking capitals in the US. The most insane acqusitions of all time is when BofA bought Countrywide Mtge and then Merrill Lynch around 2005-6. Both were loaded to the hilt with subprime mtges and toxic CMOs. Ken Lewis is the biggest idiot in the history of finance.

I dont think anyone has ever written a book about NCNB but I wish somebody would.

Its all nuts!