Adu Cecilia Adurayemi2025-05-162025-05-162014-10Adu, C.A. (2014). Banking Sector Consolidation and Stock Market Performance. International Journal of Behavioral Social and Movement Sciences. 3(4); 5-16.2277-7547https://repository.crawforduniversity.edu.ng/handle/123456789/145In this paper, an attempt has been made to address the impact of banking sector consolidation on the stock market performance in Nigeria between 2001 and 2012.The introduction to the banking system in Nigeria was discussed, some literatures were reviewed ,past challenges in the capital market, consolidation exercise between 2004 and 2009 were looked into. The secondary source of data was used to analyze if there was any significant relationship between the banking sector consolidation and stock market performance before, during and after the consolidation exercise. It was concluded that banking consolidation policy on its own could not increase stock market returns but there must be adequate mix with other monetary and fiscal policy instruments to produce desired result.enBanking Sector Consolidation and Stock Market PerformanceArticle