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26 unusual facts about Bank of America


Anthony Meindl

He has been in many commercials for various products and companies, including Diet Coke, Philips Electronics, Bank of America, Nissan, Michelob Lite, Sears, Acura, Del Taco, Mervyns, and Behr Paint, among others.

Banco Itaú

Then, in April 2006, Itaú purchased the Brazilian operations of BankBoston, a subsidiary that Bank of America acquired with its purchase of FleetBoston.

Bank of America Pavilion

In 2004 FleetBoston merged with Bank of America; the pavilion was then renamed, Bank of America Pavilion.

Biff Hoffman

In 1930, Hoffman married fellow Stanford graduate Claire Giannini, daughter of Bank of America founder Amadeo Giannini.

Calibuso, et al. v. Bank of America Corp., et al.

On March 30, 2010, three female employees launched a class action gender discrimination lawsuit against Bank of America and Merrill Lynch.

César Augusto Blanco-Gramajo

Prior to joining Kelloggs, Blanco-Gramajo worked in various roles for both the Bank of America and Citibank.

Charles Copeland Morse House

This brass fixture came from the family of the founder of the Bank of America, Amadeo Giannini.

CHARM Bank

Robertson Stephens was acquired by BankAmerica, the holding company owning Bank of America and its subsidiareis, in 1997.

Đặng Sỹ

Dang chose to resign to civilian life and worked at Bank of America in Saigon.

E. Frederic Morrow

He later became the first African American vice-president of Bank of America.

Gerald Howarth

In 1971 was employed by the Bank of America International Ltd., where he remained until 1977, when he moved to the European Arab Bank until 1981 (Manager 1979-81).

Global elite

Some of them work for large corporations such as Goldman Sachs and Bank of America.

Gunnar S. Overstrom, Jr.

was a vice chairman of FleetBoston Financial (now a part of Bank of America) and the former president and chief operating officer of the Shawmut National Corporation.

History of the University of California, Santa Barbara

In the spring 1970 multiple occasions of arson occurred, including a burning of the Bank of America branch building in the student community of Isla Vista, during which time one male student, Kevin Moran, was shot and killed by police.

J. Veronica Biggins

Biggins entered the business world as a management trainee at Nations Bank (formerly the Citizens Southern Bank and now Bank of America).

Joseph P. Williams

As an admirer of A.P. Giannini's aggressive banking approach at the Bank of America, he drove to San Francisco after completing his military service and approached Giannini for a job at the bank.

Kenny Ryan

Ryan has two older brothers; Ross (graduate of University of Michigan School of Dentistry) and Charles (part of the prestigious Global Risk Management Associate Program at Bank of America).

Kids for Peace

In November 2009, Ms. McManigal received a Bank of America Local Hero award, recognizing her work through Kids for Peace.

L. Richardson Preyer

After working as a vice president for North Carolina National Bank (today, Bank of America), Preyer was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1968.

M. Peter McPherson

After his service in the Reagan administration, McPherson worked for Bank of America from 1989 to 1993 managing $600 million as the bank's executive vice president.

North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center

The Blumenthal Center and the adjacent Founder's Hall and Bank of America corporate center were all designed by César Pelli

Occupy Providence

The march made its way through the streets of downtown Providence, pausing outside such institutions as Bank of America, Providence Place Mall, and the Statehouse.

Operation Homefront

Operation Homefront created the Homes on the Homefront program through a new partnership with Chase Bank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

Stacy Edwards

She appeared in an episode of The Mentalist (CBS) that aired September 30, 2010 and recently in a commercial for Bank of America.

Sto-Rox School District

Bank Settlement Sto-Rox School District received $608,883 in a settlement against Bank of America in 2011.

Virginia Arts Festival

Corporate sponsors include American Airlines, Bank of America, Norfolk Southern, Suntrust, The Dalis Foundation, WHRO, and other private businesses from around the region.


ACCEL/Exchange

In the 1990s most banks in the Pacific Northwest were part of this network including Seafirst Bank/Bank of America, US Bank, First Interstate Bank, Puget Sound Bank, Rainier Bank/Security Pacific, Key Bank and West One Bank.

Cogent Research

Cogent provides research services to multiple Fortune 500 companies located in the financial industry, including Bank of America, TD Ameritrade, John Hancock, Aetna, Prudential Financial, ING, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

CUHK Faculty of Law

The graduate-level law classes for the JD, the LLM and the PCLL are held at the Graduate Law Centre (GLC), on the second floor of the Bank of America Tower in Admiralty.

David Wecker

For 16 years, has been chief concept writer at The Eureka Ranch, where he played a key role in inventing and articulating some 5,000 new business concepts for a long list of Fortune 500 clients – including Nike, Disney, American Express, Chrysler, Frito-Lay, Bank of America and dozens of others.

DeLorean Motor Company

Investment capital came primarily in the form of business loans from the Bank of America and from the formation of partnerships and private investment from select parties, including The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson and entertainers Roy Clark and Sammy Davis, Jr..

Discover Financial

Discover is the fourth largest credit card issuer, when measured by card balances, behind Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Citi, and ahead of Capital One and American Express.

E'Shun Melvin

He has appeared in numerous television commercials, including ads for Monopoly, Verizon FiOS, Bank of America, and Mattel.

Hamilton Mall

Financial services include an Executive Cash Service Center and various Bank of America ATMs.

Jan Lorenc

The firm identifies its work as "environmental communication design," a body of work that includes museums and visitors centers, trade show exhibits, theme park design, signage, retail spaces, and furniture for organizations including Mayo Clinic, Coca-Cola, North Carolina State University, Georgia-Pacific, Haworth Furniture Company, General Motors, Bank of America, General Mills and Sony-Ericsson.

Jerry Richardson Stadium

On November 1, 2011, the stadium's playing field was named McColl–Richardson Field after Hugh McColl, former chief executive officer of Bank of America, and Jerry Richardson, owner of the National Football League's Carolina Panthers, purchased the naming rights for an undisclosed amount.

Kennedy Plaza

Surrounding the Plaza are Burnside Park, the Bank of America skating center, and Haven Brothers Diner which has been rolled into the Plaza nightly since 1893.

Kenwood Towne Place

Bank of America filed a foreclosure lawsuit in the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court against Bear Creek Capital and the developers of Kenwood Towne Place in May 2009.

Levi Weaver

In 2010, just as the album "You are never close to home" was nearing completion, Weaver discovered that the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, Texas was under contract to Bank of America, to be mostly demolished and turned into a drive-through bank.

Merchant account provider

Now, very few banks issue credit cards and the industry is dominated by a few large issuers - Elavon, Citibank, Capital One, MBNA / Bank of America, and Chase.

Mike Pallagi

He has worked for clients like Nintendo, Arizona State Fair, JCPenney, McDonald's, InSinkErator, The Arizona Republic, Dremel, Bank of America, General Electric, and others; as a producer of the Crispin Glover film What Is It? (which played at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival); and as a freelance script doctor on several independent features.

National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders

The organization was created in 1990 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. Among the financial institutions that are NAAHL members are Bank of America, Bank of New York, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wachovia and Wells Fargo.

Old Middletown Post Office

Across Court Street to the north is the massive Liberty Bank building and to its south across a parking lot; is the Bank of America building.

Phoenix Media/Communications Group

The sports and magazine division publishes the official yearbooks for the Boston Celtics, the Boston Bruins, and the Boston Marathon, in addition to program guides for the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts, and the Bank of America Pavilion summer music series.

START Now!

The program has grown to include major banks such as HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and CitiMortgage (Citigroup).

Thomas L. Cummings, Sr.

His son, Thomas L. Cummings, Jr., was a businessman and founder of Cummings Signs, a manufacturer of corporate brand signs for the Ford Motor Company, Chrysler, KFC, Captain D's, the Chevron Corporation, Conoco, Holiday Inn and Bank of America.

William Lerach

Lerach was involved in many securities class action and corporate derivative suits in recent years, including Enron, Dynegy, Qwest, WorldCom, Citibank, Drexel Burnham, Tyco, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston, Global Crossing, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, ExxonMobil, R.J. Reynolds, Arthur Andersen, and AOL Time Warner.