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Bank Systems & Technology November 30, 2003 Steven Marlin	Careful What You Wish For: Technology Is Key to BofA/Fleet Deal Bank of America and FleetBoston must decide how best to assimilate their systems.
Bank Systems & Technology January 11, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz	IT Integration and the Bank of America/Countrywide Merger The merger of Bank of America and Countrywide will bring together two companies with very large IT organizations. In the beginning they will probably run the core systems of both companies simultaneously.
InternetNews May 18, 2005 Clint Boulton	Platform Shift Knocks 40K BofA Customers Offline Bank of America will take down some online and ATM access to finish switching over customers still on the Fleet network.
BusinessWeek February 7, 2005 Dean Foust	BofA's Happy Surprise Consumer chief McGee's sweeping makeover of Fleet's branches is a success
U.S. Banker July 2004 Michael Dumiak	SubdivIsions Over the past decade part of the ticket to building the country's massive financial empires has been a public promise to pour money into developing communities. Add up the numbers up and it's a staggering amount of money.
Bank Systems & Technology November 30, 2003 Katherine Burger	Damning with Faint Praise The winner of last month's "Now you tell me!" award was Charles Prince, Citigroup's recently named CEO, who stated in a presentation about the institution's global corporate and investment bank, "The era of the transformational merger is over."
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BusinessWeek May 22, 2006 Mara Der Hovanesian	(Investment) Bank Of America? Bank of America aims to build its way up to the top tier of investment banks. It won't be easy.
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Bank Technology News June 2004 John Adams	The General of BofA's Army Ken Lewis was named president, chairman and CEO of BofA in 2001 following the turf war that accompanied the NationsBank-BofA deal.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2009 David Lee Smith	The Comcast-NBC Universal Merger Could Take Eons Should you play the Comcast merger through the cable company?
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InternetNews August 11, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Andrew Calls Off ADC Merger... For Now After watching its stock value slide, Andrew's $2 billion merger with ADC is off.
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InternetNews August 19, 2005 Tim Gray	Group Blasts Verizon-MCI Merger The California ISP Association says the planned combination of voice and data heavyweights would lead to less competition and higher prices. For the merger to go forward, the companies must get approval from the federal government and several state governments.
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BusinessWeek November 5, 2009 James C. Cooper	Business Outlook: The Fed: A Whole New Playbook for Tightening Now that growth is picking up, it'll soon be time to sop up excess funds. But given the unconventional easing of the past year, the old methods no longer apply.
CIO April 1, 2004 Alice Dragoon	Banks Fight Customer Fligtht Following mergers, banks used to sacrifice customer service in favor of speedy integration and cost-cutting. But no more. Here's how CIOs are helping banks implement a new postmerger mandate to focus on customer service.
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BusinessWeek December 3, 2009 Peter Coy	An Embattled Fed Fights Back Bernanke is unapologetic and warns that moves to weaken the central bank would jeopardize economic stability
Bank Systems & Technology May 25, 2006 Maria Bruno-Britz	BankAmericard Resurrection: Just Posturing or Real Business? Bank of America announced in late April that it is entertaining plans for creating a new credit card brand and processing network. According to industry insiders, the move would significantly alter the card/processing space.
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