IMPACT OF MERGER AND ACQUISITION ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS OF NEPAL

Abstract

The study entitled merger and its impact on financial performance of commercial banks in Nepal. The purpose of this research is to study the effect of merger on the financial performance of commercial bank when Nepal Rastra Bank introduced a forceful merger bylaws policy in the year of 2011. This study is based on the descriptive and analytical research design. Performance of commercial banks is measured by different variables such as ROA, ROE, EPS, profit margin, capital adequacy, assets quality, liquidity and debt to equity ratios. Pared sample t-test is used to measure the significant change pre-merger performance and post-merger performance. This study conclude that Returns on Assets, earning per share, profit margin, liquidity increased significantly after the merger of the banks. However return on equity, assets quality, debt to total equity and capital adequacy ratio are decreased after the merger. The assets quality ratios, which is measured by the total non-performing assets to total loan and advance is decreased after the merger, which show that the performing assets of merged banks. The merged banks able to maintain non-performing assets ratios as refers by Nepal Rastra Bank. Similarly the sampled merged bank able to meet the capital adequacy ratio.