In the banking, insurance, fund management & financial markets industry some names have vanished, due to merger and acquisition. Here is a snapshot of a few famous names that no longer exist.<\/p>\n
Smith New Court<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Merril Lynch In the banking, insurance, fund management & financial markets industry some names have vanished, due to merger and acquisition. Here is a snapshot of a few famous names that no longer exist. Smith New Court:Acquired by Merril Lynch Mercury Asset Management:Acquired by Merril Lynch Merril Lynch:Acquired by Bank of America James Capel:Acquired by HSBC National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMercury Asset Management<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Merril Lynch
\nMerril Lynch<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Bank of America
\nJames Capel<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by HSBC
\nNational Westminster Bank<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Royal Bank of Scotland
\nSchroders Investment Bank<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Solomon Smith Barney
\nMidland Bank<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by HSBC
\nWilliam & Glyns Bank<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by The Royal Bank of Scotland
\nSG Warburg<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by UBS
\nDillon Read<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation
\nSwiss Bank Corporation<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by UBS
\nPhilips & Drew<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by UBS
\nBarings Bank<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by ING
\nAdam & Co<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Royal Bank of Scotland
\nMorgan Grenfell<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Deutsche Bank
\nMurray Johnstone<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Aberdeen Asset Management
\nEdinburgh Fund Managers<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Aberdeen Asset Management
\nING Direct\u00a0UK<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Barclays
\nNewton Investment Management Limited<\/strong><\/em>:Aquired by Bank of New York Mellon
\nHambros Bank<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Soc Gen
\nKleinwort Benson<\/strong>:Acquired by Dresdner Bank
\nScottish Life<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Royal London Assurance
\nEgg<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Yorkshire Building Society
\nWachovia<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Wells Fargo
\nBarclays Global Investors<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Blackrock
\nMerril Lynch Investment Managers<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Blackrock
\nStandard Life Bank<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Barclays\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\nAbbey National<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Santander
\nAlliance and Leicester<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Santander
\nSamuel Montagu<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by HSBC
\nMorley Fund Management<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Commercial Union
\nGeneral Accident & Commercial Union<\/strong><\/em>:Mergered to form CGU
\nNorwich Union & CGU<\/strong><\/em>:Merged to form Aviva
\nRobert Fleming<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Chase Manhattan
\nChase Manhattan<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by JP Morgan
\nHill Samuel<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by TSB
\nTSB and Lloyds Bank<\/strong><\/em>:Mergered to form LloydsTSB
\nScottish Widows<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by LloydsTSB
\nCheltenham & Gloucester<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by LloydsTSB
\nClerical Medical<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Halifax
\nHalifax & Bank of Scotland<\/strong><\/em>:Mergerd to form HBOS
\nHBOS<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by LloydsTSB
\nWoolwich<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Barclays
\nFriends Provident<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Resolution
\nNew Star<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Henderson Investors
\nGartmore<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Henderson Investors
\nM&G Investment Management<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Prudential
\nScottish Amicable<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by Prudential
\nBear Stearns<\/strong><\/em>:Acquired by JP Morgan Chase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"