AL-Qadisiyah Journal For Administrative and Economic sciences

Horizontal Bank Mergers in the Face of Financial Crises: An Analytical Study of Commercial Banks in Iraq

Authors

Ali jabbar abed
Hussein Ghanim Khashan Alzubaidi

University of Al Qadisiyah

https://doi.org/10.33916/qjae.2025.Specialissue0141147
Abstract
Banking merger is one of the outcomes of globalization, and it is one of the new global banking variables whose influence increased, especially during the second half of the nineties, with the increasing trend towards the globalization of banks as part of the system of economic globalization. It has become a global phenomenon at the present time, due to reasons of global competition, and in light of changes In light of globalization, the success of banking operations depends directly on its success in managing banking risks and choosing a business strategy that reduces threats and challenges, whether internal or external, as crisis management means how to deal with and overcome them with various scientific tools, as well as avoiding their negatives. Benefiting from it in the future, given that the crisis is not the result of itself, and the researcher sought through the foregoing to show the importance of managing banking crises in the Iraqi economy by tracking that in some Iraqi commercial banks.

Keywords

banking merger
the economic importance of banks
Iraqi commercial banks
Crossmark
AL-Qadisiyah Journal For Administrative and Economic sciences
Volume 26, Special 1
Winter 2026
Pages 141-147

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