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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]
Bank One Corporation was an American bank founded in 1968 and at its peak the sixth-largest bank in the ... At the time of the Merrill Lynch acquisition in 1989 ...
Merrill Lynch & Co., formally Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, was a publicly-traded American investment bank that existed independently from 1914 until January 2009 before being acquired by Bank of America and rolled into BofA Securities. The firm engaged in prime brokerage and broker-dealer activities and was headquartered ...
Stanley O'Neal. Earnest Stanley O'Neal (born October 7, 1951 [2]) is an American business executive who was formerly chairman and chief executive of Merrill Lynch having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was criticized for his performance during his tenure as chief executive at ...
John Thain. John Alexander Thain (born May 26, 1955) is an American financial executive and investment banker. He was president and co-COO of Goldman Sachs, and then CEO of the New York Stock Exchange. Thain then became the last chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch & Co. before its merger with Bank of America. He was designated to become president ...
acquired by Merrill Lynch in 1984 A.G. Edwards: acquired by Wachovia in 2007 Alex. Brown & Sons: ultimately part of Deutsche Bank, survives as minor business unit The Argosy Group: acquired by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in 1995 Babcock & Brown: collapsed 2009, liquidation of its assets BancAmerica Robertson Stephens
During this time, Merrill Lynch was being merged with Bank of America to create Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML); the deal was completed in 2013, months after Orcel left with like-minded executives. [14] Two of Merrill Lynch's largest corporate clients, UniCredit and Santander, reportedly transferred their business to UBS, following Orcel. [31]
Sallie L. Krawcheck (born November 28, 1964) [ 1 ] is the former head of Bank of America 's Global Wealth and Investment Management division and is currently the CEO and co-founder of Ellevest, a digital financial advisor for women launched in 2016. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] She has been called "the most powerful woman on Wall Street."