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Diamond rejects top job chance at Bank of America

20.10.09
Barclays president Bob Diamond has snubbed the chance to try out for the top job at Bank of America ... more

City Spy: Gloves off for BGC vs Tullett fight

03.07.09
Roll up! Roll up! Monday sees the start of what could be a fascinating week in the High Court in the Strand. Case Number One, which may well take all of July, involves City giants Tullett Prebon (prop. Terry Smith) and BGC over alleged poaching of Tullett’s highly paid expert staff ... more

Private jets still used by shamed bankers

19.06.09
Some of Wall Street's top bankers continued to use corporate jets for personal purposes even after their firms received multi-billion-dollar bailouts from the US taxpayer... more

Investors’ query as the burden is revealed

16.01.09
Banking: What did they know and when? That was the question investors were asking today of Bank of America after it laid bare the disastrous state of Merrill Lynch’s finances... more

Bank of America given lifeline after Merrill hit

16.01.09
Banking: Bank of America grabbed a $138 billion lifeline from the US government and finally admitted the vast scale of losses racked up by newly acquired Merrill Lynch... more

Head of Merrill’s ‘crown jewel’ quits

06.01.09
Stockbroking: The chief of Merrill Lynch’s brokerage business, Bob McCann, is leaving, less than a week after Bank of America completed its acquisition of the securities firm.... more

Wall St fury as Paulson laid it on line

15.10.08
Wall Street chiefs' crunch summit with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson over Tuesday's recapitalisation plan grew so heated that Federal Reserve Governor Ben Bernanke had to step in to calm things down... more

BoA slices divi and seeks cash

07.10.08
Banking: Bank of America has halved its dividend and is planning to sell at least £5.7 billion in shares as it battles “recessionary conditions”... more

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