Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Hills, Thomas D. URN etd-04272006-143437 Title The Recent Rise of Southern Banking Degree Master of Arts Department History Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Gleen T. Eskew Committee Chair C. M. Kuhn Committee Member Keywords
- southeastern region banking compact
Date of Defense 2006-04-25 Availability unrestricted Abstract Between 1984 and 1986 the legislatures of several southern states enacted
changes to their banking laws that enabled banking companies in Southern Region states
to acquire and be acquired by banking companies in other Southern Region states, as long
as these companies qualified as “Southern.” The purpose of the compact was to allow
some southern banking companies an opportunity to grow and gain financial strength
before full interstate banking was permitted. This study shows that the compact was
successful. In 1985 no southern banking companies were among the top ten banks in the
country, but by 2005 four were. Furthermore, no major southern bank has been acquired
by a U.S. banking company outside of the South, although several southern banking
companies have bought banks in other regions. The southern economy and its banking
industry have benefited, although the benefits have been unevenly spread among states.
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