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[8] [9] Merrill Lynch and Citigroup sought new leaders following the sudden departure of their former CEOs after the disappointing performance in the third quarter of 2007 due to the subprime mortgage crisis. [10] [11] Nelson Chai, the CFO of the New York Stock Exchange under Thain, followed his mentor to Merrill Lynch and assumed the same role ...
Offshore bank [1] April 2, 2007: New Century: Chapter 11 bankruptcy and liquidation Mortgage lender [2] August 6, 2007: American Home Mortgage: Chapter 11 bankruptcy and liquidation Mortgage lender [3] August 31, 2007: Ameriquest Mortgage: Chapter 11 bankruptcy and liquidation Largest Subprime Mortgage lender September 28, 2007: NetBank: ING Direct
Later that day, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America for 0.8595 share of Bank of America common stock for each Merrill Lynch common share, or about $50 billion or $29 per share. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] This price represented a 70.1% premium over the September 12 closing price or a 38% premium over Merrill's book value of $21 a share, [ 52 ] but also ...
Merrill Lynch was acquired by Bank of America in September 2008 for $50 billion. [9] Scottish banking group HBOS was acquired by UK rival Lloyds TSB on 17 September 2008, after "HBOS voiced concerns that depositors and lenders had begun to withdraw their credit from the bank". The UK government made this takeover possible by waiving its ...
First Franklin was founded in 1981 in San Jose, California, US, to serve the prime credit market, but in 1994 it switched to serve the nonprime lending market.(One of the co-founders of the company was Bill Dallas, who served as its chairman, CEO and chairman emeritus until 2003, and who subsequently bought OwnIt Mortgage Solutions, which was 20% owned by Merrill Lynch.
Mayish: Merrill Lynch fires Jeff Kronthal, who had formerly worked under Lew Ranieri at Salomon Brothers, and his team, because they made a presentation outlining the risks of the mortgage CDO market. [120] Middle: Merrill Lynch CDO sales department has trouble selling the super senior tranche of its CDOs. Instead, it sets up a group within ...
In May 2007, Fleming and Ahmass Fakahany were named co-presidents of Merrill Lynch. [17] In June 2008, Fleming became chief operating officer. [18] After the Bank of America merger was completed in January 2009, [19] Fleming resigned from Merrill Lynch to teach at Yale University, [20] becoming a senior research scholar and lecturer in law. [21]
Peek joined CIT after being turned down as a potential CEO from Merrill Lynch, where he had been employed for almost 20 years, and a 19-month spell at Credit Suisse Group. [5] He was directly responsible for expanding CIT into lending subprime mortgages and student loans. This made the company vulnerable to changes in the market, and following ...