Banking Sector M&A, Dealmaking For Regional Banks | Bloomberg Deals 3/18/2026

Posted on 03/18/2026
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A weekly, midday program that delivers high-impact, editorially driven coverage of the most important corporate transactions shaping the global market. Today's guests: KBW President & CEO Tom Michaud, Key Institutional Bank President Randy Paine, McKinsey Senior Partner Amit Garg, Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Angela Strange, and Lincoln International CEO Rob Brown.



Chapters:

00:00:00 - Bloomberg Deals opens

00:01:53 - Unicredit Makes $40B for Commerzbank KONE in Talks TK Elevator Takeover

00:05:49 - Public Storage Buying National Storage for $10B

00:07:14 - Six Flags Investor Jana Urges Sale

00:09:38 - BW CEO Tom Michaud: Webster Deal Was A Surprise

00:11:24 - Michaud: Trump Admin Leveling the Playing Field

00:13:19 - Michaud: Certain Underwriting Going to be Conservative

00:15:32 - Michaud: Bank Consolidation Will Continue

00:17:02 - Michaud on AI Anxiety

00:21:20 - JPMorgan Halts Qualtrics $5.3B Debt Deal

00:24:16 - The Investment Committee: Dealmaking for Regional Banks

00:35:49 - Lincoln International CEO Brown: No ‘Major Concerns’ For Private Credit

00:39:38 - Brown: Don’t See ‘A Credit Crunch’ Issue

00:43:30 - TD Sees Rogers Building $18B Sports Empire

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