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BankBoston was a bank created by the 1996 merger of Bank of Boston and BayBank, and acquired by FleetBoston Financial in 1999. Learn about its origins, operations, and acquisitions from 1784 to 2005.
100 Federal Street is a 37-floor skyscraper in Boston's Financial District, formerly known as the First National Bank Building. It is now the center of Bank of America's New England operations and has a distinctive bulge near its base.
FNB Corporation is the holding company for First National Bank, a regional bank with assets of nearly $46 billion and 350 offices in six states. It was founded in 1864 in Pennsylvania and has grown through mergers and acquisitions, including Yadkin Financial and Howard Bancorp.
FleetBoston Financial was a Boston-based bank created in 1999 by the merger of Fleet Financial Group and BankBoston. It was acquired by Bank of America in 2004 and its branches and subsidiaries were converted to Bank of America.
First Boston was a New York-based investment bank founded in 1932 and acquired by Credit Suisse in 1988. It operated as CS First Boston until 2006, when it was fully integrated into Credit Suisse, and was revived in 2022 as part of a spin-out plan.
First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U.S. 765 (1978), is a U.S. constitutional law case which defined the free speech right of corporations for the first time. . The United States Supreme Court held that corporations have a First Amendment right to make contributions to ballot initiative campaigns
First Financial Bank, formerly First National Bank of Terre Haute, Indiana; First Maryland Bancorp, now part of M&T Bank; PNC Financial Services, formerly First National Bank of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Regions Bank, formerly First National Bank of Little Rock, Arkansas; Seafirst Bank or Seattle-First National Bank; acquired by Bank of America
The First Bank of the United States was a national bank chartered by Congress in 1791, following the Bank of North America, the nation's first de facto national bank. It was part of a plan by Alexander Hamilton to improve the nation's credit and financial system, but faced opposition from Thomas Jefferson and the Whiskey Rebellion.