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Stephen A. Rhoades, "Bank Mergers and Industrywide Structure, 1980–1994," Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reanuary 1996. (Staff study 169) Steven J. Pilloff, "Bank Merger Activity in the United States, 1994–2003," Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May 2004. (Staff study 176)
Date. Acquiring bank. Acquired bank. Purchase price. Sept. 30, 1998. Bank of America. NationsBank. $62 billion. July 1, 2004. J.P. Morgan Chase. Bank One. $58 billion
Later that day, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America for 0.8595 share of Bank of America common stock for each Merrill Lynch common share, or about $50 billion or $29 per share. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] This price represented a 70.1% premium over the September 12 closing price or a 38% premium over Merrill's book value of $21 a share, [ 52 ] but also ...
On April 22, 1992, Security Pacific Bank merged with San Francisco–based BankAmerica (now called Bank of America), [5] a deal that was at the time one of the largest bank mergers in history. Federal regulators, however, forced the sale of Security Pacific's Washington subsidiary, Rainier Bank , as the combination of Seafirst and Rainier would ...
The history of Bank of America dates back to October 17, 1904, when Amadeo Pietro Giannini (1870–1949) founded the Bank of Italy, in San Francisco. [14] In 1922, Bank of America, Los Angeles was established with Giannini as a minority investor.
Bank executives, meanwhile, complain that regulators' foot-dragging and uncertainty caused by looming regulatory reforms have depressed merger activity among healthy banks to historic lows.
As a condition of approving the acquisition, the Federal Reserve Bank mandated that Bank of America make $150 million in home loans — enough for an estimated 1,325 mortgages — available for ...
Bank of America building in Atlanta was for years owned by NationsBank. In 1998, it acquired BankAmerica Corporation of San Francisco in what was the largest bank merger in American history at the time. Although NationsBank was the nominal survivor, the merged bank took the better-known Bank of America name, and operates under Bank of America's ...