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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 ...
Visa Inc. ( / ˈviːzə, ˈviːsə /; stylized as VISA) is an American multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. [1] [4] It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout the world, most commonly through Visa-branded credit cards, debit cards and prepaid cards. [5]
MBNA was founded in 1982 as Maryland Bank, N.A. [3] [4] [5] Led by Charles Cawley, MBNA opened its first office in a converted A&P (Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company) food supermarket in Ogletown, Delaware. [6] An early driver of MBNA's growth was the creation of "affinity cards" in 1983. Cawley convinced the alumni association at his alma ...
Bank of America. Bank of America, formerly known as the Bank of Italy, was founded in San Francisco, California, United States, on October 17, 1904, [1] by Amadeo Pietro Giannini. By 1945, it had grown by a branch banking strategy to become the world's largest commercial bank with 493 branches in California and assets totaling $5 billion.
Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, attends the Annual Oversight of Wall Street Firms hearing before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6 ...
Ken Lewis. Kenneth D. Lewis (born April 9, 1947) is the former CEO, president, and chairman of Bank of America, the second largest bank in the United States [1] and twelfth largest by total assets in the world. [2] While CEO of Bank of America, Lewis was noted for purchasing the failing companies Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch ...
Many of the largest global banks based in the U.S., including J.P. Morgan, Citi, and Bank of America, have recently expanded in Paris at the expense of London, attracted by more business-friendly ...
Working Assets is a corporation in the United States founded in 1985 by Peter Barnes. [1] Working Assets' first product was the Better World Credit Card. After the United States deregulated telephone service, the company introduced Working Assets Long Distance in 1991. In 2000, it also became a mobile virtual network operator, operating as ...