Summary: Increasing scarcity of both buyers and sellers will drive bank mergers and acquisitions in 2020, says Rob Klingler of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. 2020 trends to expect include scarcity of selling banks, driven by a strong M&A pace in previous years and a paltry de novo pipeline; increasing scarcity of buyers, as many fast-growing acquisitive banks have reached sizes where their interest in absorbing smaller community banks declines; and growth in non-traditional transactions.
