The change would increase taxes on the merged banks by $7 billion over 10 years.

The merged bank became Scotland's largest in terms of deposits, advances and branches.

This summer Goldome, the successor to the merged bank, moved out of the building, leaving it empty.

The merged bank will also close about 75 of its 400-plus branches, largely in midtown and lower Manhattan.

And yesterday, he said he was confident about the consumer side of the merged bank.

Dubai Islamic's ownership will drop to 28 percent of the merged bank.

The deals also allowed the merged banks to expand into new business ventures.

The larger size of the merged banks gives us the business benefits in many ways.

The headquarters of the merged bank was in Montreal.

The merged bank will have about 20 million customers.