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The Motley Fool
April 30, 2009
Morgan Housel |
What's Next for Ken Lewis? Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis was stripped of his chairmanship at the company's annual meeting in a close vote.   |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2009
Morgan Housel |
B of A's Ken Lewis: Still Mostly Clueless Maria Bartiromo asks Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis how he would prove to an upcoming shareholder meeting that Merrill Lynch won't become something that will require a 12-figure bailout by the federal government. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2009 |
BofA's Lewis In Dissidents' Sights Just months ago, he was heralded as banker of the year. Now he's the target of a group of angry shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Was Bank of America Forced to Buy Merrill? Two key questions that investors want to know the answers to are when those seemingly "unexpected" Merrill losses came to light, and why the deal was still consummated after they were discovered. |
Bank Systems & Technology
October 16, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
No Salary, Bonus for Ken Lewis The decision was made by U.S. government pay czar Kenneth Feinberg. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Justice for Bank of America Shareholders Bank of America shareholders are getting some justice, and those singlehandedly responsible for transforming the bank from a world-class enterprise into a taxpayer-sucking ward are being held accountable. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bank of America Needs a Regime Change After news of a $2.39 billion quarterly loss and the announcement that dividends are all but history Bank of America investors now have sincere reasons to question the capability of CEO Ken Lewis. |
BusinessWeek
May 20, 2009
Dean Foust |
Can BofA CEO Ken Lewis Keep His Job? The pressure on Bank of America Chief Executive Officer Kenneth D. Lewis is growing by the day. Officials fear Washington wants to push the CEO out. |
The Motley Fool
October 1, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Don't Let the Door Hit You, Ken Lewis! The CEO says the end of the year will be the end of his career with Bank of America. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Shakeup Looms at Bank of America Among other issues B of A investors must grapple with at their annual meeting is the fate of CEO Ken Lewis, who has been tarred and feathered after the multibillion-dollar Merrill Lynch acquisition blew up, nearly taking shareholders down with it. |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Ken Lewis: A Fraudster, or Just Stupid? Or maybe a stupid fraudster? |
Registered Rep.
January 22, 2009 |
Thain Departs BofA--An $87,000 Rug? Say It Ain't So, John! Client AUMs Fall By 30 Percent In 2008 John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch and the man who engineered the sales of the storied Wall Street firm to Bank of America in September, is leaving the combined firm immediately. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2010
Mac Greer |
Fool Radio: Michael Lewis on "The Blind Side" The author discusses his book. |
U.S. Banker
February 2010 |
Hits and Has-Beens Executive changes: Brian Moynihan emerged as Ken Lewis' successor at Bank of America... BofA vice chairman William McDonough retires... Regions Financial chairman and CEO C. Dowd Ritter announces retirement... more... |
The Motley Fool
April 23, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Conspiracy at Bank of America? News breaks that Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis was supposedly strong-armed by the government to keep mum on the losses at Merrill Lynch. |
Registered Rep.
October 2, 2008 |
Thain Gets a Job at Bank of America Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain has accepted an offer to be president of Global Banking, Securities and Wealth Management at Bank of America. |
The Motley Fool
April 29, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
B of A Needs a New CEO Ken Lewis had his crack at running Bank of America and it hasn't turned out well. Should he be shown the door? |
Registered Rep.
January 16, 2009 |
Citi's Global Wealth Mgt Unit: Retail Clients Flee; Merrill Drags Down Everybody knows that Citigroup announced yesterday it was putting itself out of its misery. The failing bank had a whopping $8.29 billion fourth-quarter loss, capping off a horrific year. |
Registered Rep.
November 10, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
Merrill Integration Ahead of Schedule, Says Lewis An article in the New York Post claims Merrill Lynch advisors are annoyed with Bank of America's (BoA) efforts to get them to offer their clients BoA checking accounts, but Ken Lewis says that's not true. |
Registered Rep.
April 20, 2009
John churchill |
Bank of America Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates; Top Financial Advisors Staying Put Bank of America joins Wells Fargo, Citi and Goldman Sachs on the list of banks reporting better than expected earnings in the first quarter. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Gone So Soon, John Thain? Merrill Lynch's John Thain has bowed out just weeks after selling his firm to Bank of America. |
Registered Rep.
February 4, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
NY AG Names Names -- Charges Ken Lewis With Fraud The New York Attorney General's office today charged Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis with fraud for failing to disclose material details about Merrill Lynch in its merger with the brokerage. |
Registered Rep.
January 26, 2009
John Aidan Byrne |
New Head, But Same Old Mission For Merrill's Retail Bank of America has named general counsel Brian Moynihan, an executive well versed in legal and business principles, to replace John Thain. |
Bank Director
4th Quarter 2009
Jack Milligan |
For BofA, a Year of Living Dangerously While some might resent it, strong CEOs sometimes need strong boards to protect them from themselves. |
The Motley Fool
October 1, 2009
Brian Richards |
Today's 5 Top Stories Ken Lewis to step down... Strong third quarter for stocks... Cisco Systems acquires Tandberg ASA... Is Comcast buying NBC Universal?... High-frequency trading... |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bank of America Comes Back for Seconds After biting off more than it could chew with its acquisition of Merrill Lynch, Bank of America is heading back to the bailout line for a second helping. |
Registered Rep.
February 26, 2009
John Churchill |
AG Cuomo Has the Goods--What Will Come of Merrill Bonuses? Former Merrill CEO John Thain testified before the AG for the second time on Tuesday, abiding by a court order that he share the names of bonus recipients with the AG after he initially declined to do so. |
Registered Rep.
August 3, 2009
John Churchill |
When Kenny Met Sallie - Bank of America hires Krawcheck Sallie Krawcheck, one of the most powerful women on Wall Street, has ended her year-long absence from the wealth management industry with an auspicious return. |
The Motley Fool
February 4, 2009
Morgan Housel |
First, Fire All the Bad Bankers One thing that most see eye to eye on is that management of bailed banks should be thrown out. And why not? Most employees can be fired for showing up late, while bank CEOs are still employed after obliterating hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth. It's appalling. |
Registered Rep.
September 15, 2008
Kristen French |
Merrill Lynch Sells Itself To Bank of America: Update 3 The biggest question, now that BofA has agreed to buy Merrill Lynch, is what Bank of America will do to hold onto Merrill Lynch's dearest asset -- its approximately 17,000 financial advisors. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2004 |
15 Years Ago in Registered Rep From June 1989: New York-based Shearson broker Charles Lewis won an aggravated harassment case against 67-year-old Ethel Scull, for phoning Lewis 1,208 times over eight days following the October 1987 crash. |
U.S. Banker
May 2004 |
Scandals Lowering BofA's Higher Standards? Nah. For corporate America, it's a case study in governance and agility. It is less about ethics than about safeguarding Bank of America's reputation. |
Registered Rep.
October 5, 2009
Kristen French |
Merrill Launches Branding Campaign; Recruiting Net Positive The new campaign Monday will cost the firm $20 million in the fourth quarter, the most Merrill has ever spent on marketing. |
Registered Rep.
November 20, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
Meet the New Boss, Literally Same as the Old Boss? Lewis to Stay at BoA? A new survey says that large shareholders and Bank of America management would prefer Ken Lewis to stay on as CEO. |
Registered Rep.
November 19, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Today's Gems: Thain Drops Hints, Trading Tax Unlikely Former CEO of Merrill Lynch resurfaces to redeem reputation... Proposed tax on over-the-counter derivatives transactions and stock trades will likely die in Senate... |
Registered Rep.
December 2, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Breakup Talks Dog BofA Two Bank of America CEO candidates recently told the board of directors that the bank should consider breaking itself up. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Stocks the Rich Executives Are Buying Sometimes insiders are buying for all the right reasons. Who's at it this week? |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Bank Stocks Obliterated Some of our largest banks now trade at their lowest levels since the early 1980s. |
Bank Systems & Technology
August 4, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Bank of America's New Executive Roster Ken Lewis reshuffles BofA's management team, including the hiring of former Citi CFO Sally Krawcheck. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2010
Jennifer Schonberger |
Michael Lewis on Fixing Wall Street The establishment-challenging author of "The Blind Side" and "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" is receiving some angry messages on his Bloomberg terminal. |
On Wall Street
July 1, 2009
Frances A. McMorris |
Rebuilding Confidence After the Turmoil Building back investor confidence isn't the job of advisors alone. Regulators, politicians and policymakers are all grappling with different approaches to the problem. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2008
David A. Geracioti |
The Deposit Sugar Daddy The surprising take over of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
The BofA/Merrill Deal Won't Happen The current stock prices of Merrill Lynch and Bank of America imply that either the market doesn't believe the deal will happen, or it doesn't believe it will happen on the current terms. Read on to see why. |
Registered Rep.
May 15, 2008
John Churchill |
Merrill's New Stock Rankings Merrill Lynch announces new guidelines for its research analysts that will require them to increase the number of firms in their coverage area that they expect will fall or underperform in the coming 12 months. |
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2011
John Reeves |
Michael Lewis on Wall Street, Europe, and the Next Big Crisis Michael Lewis visits and shares his views on the most important financial issues of the day. |
The Motley Fool
June 11, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Does Ben Bernanke Hate Bank of America? Did Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke unlawfully railroad Bank of America into buying Merrill Lynch? Some say yes and now point to documents subpoenaed by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as evidence. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2009
Jennifer Schonberger |
Lessons From the Financial Crisis Michael Lewis won acclaim for his bestselling Wall Street expose, Liar's Poker, in which he described the Wall Street excesses he witnessed as a bond salesman for Salomon Brothers. He speaks briefly now on his current opinion of the markets. |
Technology Research News
September 8, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Automatic Icons Organize Files Researchers are aiming to improve the lost-in-cyberspace problem with a tool designed to tap people's facility with pictures. |
Registered Rep.
April 15, 2009
Kristen French |
Bank of America Launches Client Referral Program It's one of several referral programs the bank is putting together as part of its integration with Merrill Lynch, including one that would offer leads from the commercial banking division to certain Merrill Lynch advisors. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Scrushy's Dirty PR Campaign The former HealthSouth CEO is accused of paying for positive ink during his trial. Here's a reminder to every investor that it is important to trust the news, but then verify what you read. |
