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The Bank of America Corporation (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan. The bank was founded by the merger of NationsBank ...
In 1791, Congress chartered the First Bank of the United States. The bank, which was jointly owned by the federal government and private stockholders, was a nationwide commercial bank which served as the bank for the federal government and operated as a regular commercial bank acting in competition with state banks.
Bank of America: U.S. Trust Corporation: Bank of America Private Wealth Management: Bank of America: 2007 M&T Bank: Partners Trust Financial Group: M&T Bank: M&T Bank: 2008 TD Banknorth: Commerce Bancorp: TD Bank, N.A. $8.5 billion TD Bank, N.A. 2008 JPMorgan Chase: Bear Stearns: JPMorgan Chase: $236 million [39] JPMorgan Chase & Co. 2008 Bank ...
Savings and loan crisis. The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed the S&L crisis) was the failure of 32% (1,043 of the 3,234) of savings and loan associations (S&Ls) in the United States from 1986 to 1995. An S&L or "thrift" is a financial institution that accepts savings deposits and makes mortgage, car and other ...
A recent obituary in the Wall Street Journal recounted the colorful career of financier A. W. Clausen, a former World Banker and a moving force behind Bank of America during some of the ...
In 1987, Labh Singh (Sukhdev Singh Sukha) allegedly masterminded [7] what was at that time the largest bank robbery in Indian history, netting almost 60 million (58 million rupees-US$4.5 million) from Millar Ganj branch of Punjab National Bank, Ludhiana; [7] a part of this stolen money belonged to the Reserve Bank of India, India's central bank.
Bank run on the Seamen's Savings Bank during the panic of 1857. There have been as many as 48 recessions in the United States dating back to the Articles of Confederation, and although economists and historians dispute certain 19th-century recessions, [1] the consensus view among economists and historians is that "The cyclical volatility of GDP and unemployment was greater before the Great ...
Charter Bank Santa Fe: New Mexico: 2010 $1.2 billion $1.7 billion Alliance Bank Culver City: California: 2009 $1.1 billion $1.6 billion City Bank Lynnwood: Washington: 2010 $1.1 billion $1.5 billion Columbia River Bank The Dalles: Oregon: 2010 $1.1 billion $1.5 billion Community Bank and Trust Cornelia: Georgia: 2010 $1.1 billion $1.5 billion ...