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...Lewis got a slap on the hand. Shareholders of Bank of America (BAC) voted to separate the chairman's role from the CEO's and the bank's board was forced to elect a new chairman, Walter E. Massey, a college president who has been on the firm's board for so long that he is as responsible for the bank's trouble as anyone else involved in the company's governance...
...Wall Street Journal has reported that Citigroup (C) and Bank of America (BAC) have done poorly on their "stress tests". Each bank may be encouraged to raise more capital. As a number of analysts have pointed out, private equity has no interest in stakes in troubled banks even at a steep discount to their current market values. To help improve banks' capital bases, the Administration will almost certainly have to take the money it has given and is about to give to banks, and convert it into common stock. That will crush current shareholders and it will create the problem...
...case in point is the conversation that Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America (BAC), says that he had with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. According to information released by NY State Attorney General and governor-in-waiting Andrew Cuomo, Lewis was threatened by Paulson who told him that the entire B of A board would be dumped if the bank backed out of a deal to buy Merrill Lynch. Passing the blame, Paulson claimed he was merely doing the dirty work of Fed chief Ben Bernanke. Bernanke has tried to distance himself from the event. The press has used...
...corporate finance results. Citi's numbers beat forecasts but revisionists began to take apart the earnings after the fact. An analyst from Goldman Sachs wrote that the big bank's credit losses are growing at a "rapid rate," meaning the shares remain a "sell." When Bank of America (BAC) released quarterly numbers that were so good that many believed they would save the job of CEO Ken Lewis, JP Morgan responded by releasing an analysis that said banks are likely to realize about $400 billion more in losses on soured assets, requiring further injections of government capital, according to Bloomberg...
...considered a well-meaning dolt by most people. Stan O'Neal of Merrill Lynch was replaced by former NYSE CEO John Thain. Thain made the error on more than one occasion of saying the worst was behind Merrill only to end up selling the company to Bank of America (BAC). Thain became enmeshed in the controversy over whether he properly disclosed Merrill's fourth quarter financial condition and if he was involved in paying Merrill executives bonuses that should not have been paid without Bank of America's consent. AIG (AIG) may be the example that best makes the case...