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BofA Securities, Inc., [1] previously Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), is an American multinational investment banking division under the auspices of Bank of America. It is not to be confused with Merrill , the stock brokerage and trading platform subsidiary of Bank of America.
The company was founded on January 6, 1914, when Charles E. Merrill opened Charles E. Merrill & Co. for business at 7 Wall Street in New York City. [11] A few months later, Merrill's friend, Edmund C. Lynch, joined him, and in 1915 the name was officially changed to Merrill, Lynch & Co. [12] At that time, the firm's name included a comma between Merrill and Lynch, which was dropped in 1938. [13]
In the hectic days that led up to Bank of America's shotgun wedding with Merrill Lynch last year, lots of mistakes were made.Not the least of those was the nondisclosure of $3.6 billion paid in ...
Source: Wikimedia Commons. Five years ago, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch, the nearly 100-year-old investment banking franchise. But it wasn't until today that Merrill Lynch officially ...
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 ...
The BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research franchise covers over 3,500 stocks and nearly 1,100 credits globally and ranks in the top tier in many external surveys. Most recently, the group was named ...
Merrill Lynch reported in its Form 10-K Report for 2005 that, in 2005, it made two withdrawals of capital from its CSE Broker in the total amount of $2.5 billion. In the same Form 10-K Report Merrill Lynch stated that the 2004 rule change was intended to "reduce regulatory capital costs" and that its CSE Broker subsidiary expected to make ...
Merrill Lynch: BofA Securities: 2008 Ameriprise Financial: J. & W. Seligman & Co. Ameriprise Financial: 2009 Morgan Stanley: Smith Barney: Morgan Stanley (Morgan ...