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"Yeah, so they won't be giving the Bank of America any more trouble, capisce?" -- Bank of America

• sanex 6mo ago
  BoA having roots in the Bank of Italy makes this even funnier.
  • EFreethought 6mo ago
    Actually it does not have roots in Bank of Italy. In 2000, NationsBank in Charlotte bought Bank of America. They used the BofA name, but the NB people ran things. Hugh McColl had been the CEO of NB for years, and he was CEO of BofA for a year. The next CEO, Ken Lewis, was also from NB. I worked for BofA in Chicago from 2001 to 2009. I talked to people in Charlotte all the time. I almost never talked to people in California. Now that I think about it, I dealt with people in a lot of regions of the US, but almost nobody on the West Coast.
    • kirubakaran 6mo ago
      "Bank of America, Los Angeles, was founded in California in 1923. In 1928, this entity was acquired by the Bank of Italy of San Francisco, which took the Bank of America name two years later" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America
      • EFreethought 6mo ago
        So why is the headquarters in Charlotte, genius? A lot of things can happen between 1928 and 1999. NationsBank also "took the Bank of America name".
        • slater 6mo ago
          i bet the answer rhymes with "shmaxes"