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  2. Investment banking - Wikipedia

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    The traditional service of underwriting security issues has declined as a percentage of revenue. As far back as 1960, 70% of Merrill Lynch's revenue was derived from transaction commissions while "traditional investment banking" services accounted for 5%. However, Merrill Lynch was a relatively "retail-focused" firm with a large brokerage ...

  3. Ascensus - Wikipedia

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    Ascensus, LLC. is an American financial services company that provides financial recordkeeping, tax-advantaged savings and retirement plan services. As of 2024, the company reports that it manages more than 14 million accounts and oversees more than $808 billion in assets under administration.

  4. 250 Vesey Street - Wikipedia

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    On October 23, 2001, about two dozen senior executives of Merrill Lynch began returning to their offices on a limited number of floors within the building, making it the first tower in the four-tower complex to be reoccupied after the attacks. [1] The structure was renamed 250 Vesey Street when the complex became Brookfield Place in 2014. [2]

  5. Charles E. Merrill - Wikipedia

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    Merrill and his friend, Edmund C. Lynch, created Merrill Lynch in 1915.Merrill made his money by investing. He orchestrated the 1926 merger which created the Safeway food chain, and Merrill Lynch provided investment banking services to Safeway to finance the acquisition of other chains, growing Safeway to more than 3,500 stores across the United States by 1931.

  6. Taylor Swift - Wikipedia

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    Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] She is named after singer-songwriter James Taylor. [2] Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), worked as a mutual fund marketing executive briefly. [3]

  7. Mike Lynch (businessman) - Wikipedia

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    In 1996 Lynch founded Autonomy, a search software company, with David Tabizel and Richard Gaunt. [9] With Lynch as chief executive officer (CEO), Autonomy became one of the UK's top 100 public companies, and a leading company in Silicon Fen. [12] [4] Lynch was described in the press as the British equivalent of the American businessman Bill Gates.

  8. American Express - Wikipedia

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    Share of the American Express Company, 1865. In 1850, American Express was started as a freight forwarding company in Buffalo, New York. [13] It was founded as a joint-stock corporation by the merger of the cash-in-transit companies owned by Henry Wells (Wells & Company), William G. Fargo (Livingston, Fargo & Company), and John Warren Butterfield (Wells, Butterfield & Company, the successor ...

  9. Trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling - Wikipedia

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    Sixteen people pleaded guilty for crimes committed at the company, and five others, including four former Merrill Lynch employees, were found guilty at trial. In a separate bench trial, Judge Sim Lake ruled that Lay was guilty of four counts of fraud and false statements. These counts were also vacated because of Lay's death. [2]