...Bank of America: Analyzing Corporate Citizenship In the words of Thomas Friedman, “If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.” With “bad neighborhoods” symbolizing customers, this portrays a direct consequence of what can happen if a company does not take into account the impacts of its business decisions. As society progresses through the 21st century, it is clear that the people along with the government are beginning to demand more from companies. Quality products and services are still highly regarded; however, becoming a good corporate citizen is turning out to be an important part of a company’s reputation. Good corporate citizenship is when companies look beyond business goals and take in consideration the effects of their business decisions. Giving back to the community is also something businesses do, however, is not part of good corporate citizenship. This is true because financially providing to a local community has no correlation to business as it is simply a way for businesses to advertise and market their product. Therefore, actions such as emphasizing an environmental program, using methods that respect social and cultural values, or providing employees with special benefits such as a company car or expense account illustrate examples of good corporate citizenship. Making sure stockholders, shareholders, and local residents are respectfully treated is also important. These actions constitute good corporate citizenship...
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...Bank of America: Challenges and Expecations Economic ups and downs are natural phenomena in today’s society. Specifically, American consumers want a good life financed by credit. The American way is, "live today, pay tomorrow". Over the years, America’s obsession for living above their means grew, even if their incomes didn’t, as revealed by the U.S. 2004 Census. A preferred standard of living and feeling of entitlement is what has dominated U.S. consumer spending habits over the last few decades. “This mentality worked so well in the 1960's and 1970's, when there were high-paying jobs, but failed miserably in the 21st century. Inability of the bulk of the U.S. population to change its mentality and live sensibly has resulted in expensive purchases that were not backed by economic realities. Lenders have helped fuel the public mentality by providing easy credit. Anyone who wanted to buy an expensive car or a mansion was a precious customer. To further boost profits, financiers engaged in risky business deals and did not keep enough cash reserves.” (lucidpages.com). This credit driven economy was unsustainable and became daily practice by business, banks and government which as a result has led to the financial meltdown that we are still experiencing today. Financial institutions, specifically Bank of America, engaged in predatory lending practices, poor acquisitions with Countrywide and Merrill Lynch, and faulty balance sheet management in which have all contributed to the collapse...
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...Bank of America 3/12/12 History of the company: The bank of America has become one the most well known banks in the world. In fact this success is due to it several historical merges, especially with the bank of Italy, founded by Amadeo Giannini in San Francisco in 1904. The founder and president of Bank of America agreed to the merging on 1929. It operated under the name Bank of America, and in 1958 the bank harnessed the technology that lets credit cars to be linked directly to bank accounts by introducing bankamericard, and this was the progenitor of VISA. Bank of America first expanded to the borders of California with its acquisition of Seattle-based Seafirst Corporation in 1983. From this, the company expanded in Idaho, Arizona, Washington and Oregon, and it was the largest in history. In 1998, the company was purchased by NationsBank, which moved the headquarters to charlotte North Carolina. The bank suffered serious losses when the director was not able to pay back the large hedge fund it loaned. NationsBank structured the purchase as a merger and renamed the merged company the bank of America Corporation. The company had assets totaling 570 billion dollars, with 4800 branches situated across 22 states. It is currently the largest bank in the United States. Comentario [RN3]: I got lost with the dates during your presentation. There are some more here, but the history could have been made clearer with specific dates and actions. Comentario [RN2]: This sentence...
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...Stock Analysis: Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) Stock Analysis: Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) Corporate Background and Lifecycle Analysis The current Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) was formed from the merger of NationsBank Corporation and BankAmerica Corporation in 1998; however, the bank’s history traces its roots back to the late 19th century. (“Bank of America Corporation,” n.d.). From humble beginnings, Bank of America’s founder, Amadeo Peter Giannini expanded his community reach by purchasing numerous well-placed banks heralding the first attempt at branch banking. (“Bank of America Corporation,” n.d.) BAC’s near downfall was the acquisition of Countrywide Financial Corp in July 2008 just before the mortgage collapse triggered the financial crisis. BAC was one of several banking companies that received significant aid from the U.S. Federal Reserve in the form of large capital investments totaling $45 billion dollars. Today, BAC is a global leader in banking and investing serving 33 million plus U.S. households and over 35 additional countries. Operations include more than 15,800 automated teller machines, 4,800 branches, and a robust online banking platform with over 31 million active users and 16.5 million mobile users (“2014 Bank of America,” 2015); however, the stock has yet to recover to its former performance. The banking industry is highly competitive and mergers and acquisitions are prevalent as industry leaders struggle for...
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...1229047 Table of Contents Introduction: 2 History of J.P.Morgan Chase & Co.: 3 Key Moments in J.P.Morgan Chase & Co. History: 3 Current Problems: 4 Important of the Analysis: 6 Different Approaches to dealing with the problem: 7 A change in focus for banks: 7 A change in focus for regulators: 7 Financial Summary Indicators: 8 JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)-NYSE: 8 Recommendation: 9 Conclusion: 10 Reference: 10 Introduction: J.P.Morgan Chase & Co. is a financial company which is an American multinational banking corporation of securities, investments, financial, and retail. It is in the top ranking and it is world’s second largest banking in the assets. The main job of this banking is that they provide financial services for the assets. They have the assets of nearly $2,509 Trillion. They have the one of the largest hedge fund unit in the United States. They formed this hedge fund in the year of 2000. The hedge fund unit was formed at the period of the Chase Manhattan Corporation was merged with the J.P.Morgan & Co. In United States of America J.P.Morgan is one of the largest banks in the top four lists. The other top banks are Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo. According to Bloomberg, J.P.Morgan Chase & Co. is as largest as the Bank of America while comparing with the assets them holding with them. J.P.Morgan Chase & Co. is the 22nd oldest bank in the world in the Bank of Manhattan Company. According to the Forbs...
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...At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time. Did you hear about the plot to rig global interest rates? The $137 million fine for bilking needy schools and cities? The ingenious plan to suck multiple fees out of the unemployment checks of jobless workers? Take your eyes off them for 10 seconds and guaranteed, they'll be into some shit again: This bank is like the world's worst-behaved teenager, taking your car and running over kittens and fire hydrants on the way to Vegas for the weekend, maxing out your credit cards in the three days you spend at your aunt's funeral. They're out of control, yet they'll never do time or go out of business, because the government remains creepily committed to their survival, like overindulgent parents who refuse to believe their 40-year-old live-at-home son could possibly be responsible for those dead hookers in the backyard. It's been four years since the government, in the name of preventing a depression, saved this megabank from ruin by pumping $45 billion of taxpayer money into its arm. Since then, the Obama administration has looked the other way as the bank committed an astonishing variety of crimes – some elaborate and brilliant in their conception, some so crude that they'd be beneath your average street thug. Bank of America has systematically ripped off...
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...companies seek to go public. Visa Inc. is a global payments technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout the world. Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers; instead, Visa provides financial institutions with Visa-branded payment products that they then use to offer credit, debit, prepaid and cash-access programs to their customers. Visa has operations across Asia-Pacific, North America, Central and South America, Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East. Visa’s industry is Financial Services which includes a broad range of organizations that deal with the management of money. Visa’s initial public offering took place three years ago on March 18, 2008. This paper will analyze the process followed by VISA in its IPO in addition to the reasons and their current situation after going public. Company History Visa’s history begins in mid-September 1958 when Bank of America launched its original BankAmericard credit card program...
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...economic and financial crises during the recent 200 years. Society was suffering from such downturns, because each of them had its own characteristics and consequences which affected the whole economic world. In the next passages I would like to tell you about the history of financial crises and about the solutions made by governments and departments which helped to reduce the bad effects of it. Not a single year has gone by in the past two centuries where there was not a financial crisis somewhere in the world (see figure 1). Arguably, the world witnessed its first international financial crisis in 1825. The opening up of Latin America after the overthrow of the Spanish empire led to the opening up of international trade between England and the Latin American republics. The result was massive capital flows from London to finance infrastructure, mining and government spending. But once the capital outflows impinged on the Bank of England’s (BoE) gold reserves, the policy rate was raised, leading to a banking crisis. A sudden stop of capital flow from London resulted in banking panics in the US and currency crashes across Latin America. Figure 1: The history of financial crises Indeed, the crisis in 1825 marked the first of seven clusters of sovereign defaults in the period 1800 to 2010 In the first cluster of defaults, which happened during 1824-1834, 13 Latin American countries defaulted. The following...
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...Georgia Gardner Strayer University Professor Irina V. Nowak CONTEMPORARY US HISTORY “PROGRESSIVE ERA THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION” August 3, 2013 Introduction: The Great Depression was an era in the American history that so many people would wish to forget. The 1920s saw the country going through various phases of poverty resulting from the crash of the stock market, job losses, collapsing of businesses in all industries in the country. The Great Depression was like no other crisis the country faced, it was never ending and there was suffering everywhere especially among the poor. There were three major factors that contributed significantly to the Great Depression with the most important being the ‘crash’ of the stock market, this is due to the fact that the strength of the United States of America was measured in many ways by the success of the stock market and with the stock market thriving as it was there was noticeable growth in various business entities. With the growth of the stock market, the rich investors also prospered as they could afford to purchase various stocks, at the same time the Federal Government reduced taxes especially for them. Not long after, came the ‘crash’ of stock market which sent Wall Street into a state of panic and literally crippled many big investors, and this ricochet to other industries such as Agriculture, which was already on the decline, the automobile and the construction industry also suffered as...
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...Debit & consumer credit card • Personal credit management • Auto dealer service Education financial service • Well Fargo insurance Rural community insurance service • • • • • Retail brokerage Wealth management Retirement Norwest equity & venture partners Lowry hill Capital markets VISION “We want to satisfy all our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially” MISSION “Our Product: SERVICE. Our value-added: FINANCIAL ADVICE. Our competitive advantage: OUR PEOPLE” EXTERNAL OPPURTUNITIES & THREATS WELLS FARGO OPPURTUNITIES Historically Low Rates • Dividend increased to $0.34 per share • Securities Emerging Markets Acquisitions • Wachovia Acquisition THREATS Competition • • Bank of America Citigroup • The interest rates are down but the unemployment rates are up and so are...
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...Bank of America SWOT Analysis In 1906, known at that time as The Bank of Italy, a face and a name was the only requirement to get a loan with Bank of America. A few days after the 1906 earthquake hit San Francisco, its founder Amadeo Peter Giannini, “quickly set up shop on the docks near San Francisco's North Beach. With a wooden plank straddling two barrels for a desk, he began to extend credit "on a face and a signature" to small businesses and individuals in need of money to rebuild their lives. His actions spurred the city's redevelopment” (Kadlec 2008). He based his business on openness and trust, driven to help the immigrants that other banks would not serve. Fast forward to present day, Bank of America is the largest bank in the United States with over 2 trillion total assets (Grocer 2011) and is the 15th largest bank worldwide ("Top Banks of the World", 2011). These rankings are impressive and one may take for granted that investing in Bank of America’s mutual funds is a safe investment. However, Bank of America has also been plagued with bad publicity surrounding foreclosures during the financial crisis in 2008 and bailouts and employee layoffs extending into 2011. These performance issues, positive and negative, need to be considered when making the decision to invest in this corporation. Not only is past performance an important factor to consider but also future standing. To help guide this decision-making process a Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats...
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...Before 1998, the Bank of America organization named “Nations Bank” and based of Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1998, NationsBank merged with BankAmerica which was in San Francisco-based and renamed the corporation "Bank of America". In America’s bank history many banks have been consolidated into the Bank of America. The biggest one is the “Bank of Italy”, founded in San Francisco by Amadeo Giannini in 1904. in 1929 those tow banks completely merged and based in Los Angeles. After the merge bank growth strongly and its succeed in developing an advanced branch banking system. The combined company was headed by Giannini with Monnette serving as co-Chair. Also they entered into the insurance industry, and branched their company into most of the western states. They also as well as Efficiency of technologies they enabled credit cards to be linked directly to individual bank accounts and also automatic check processing, account numbers. In 1958, the bank introduced the BankAmerica, which changed its name to VISA in 1977. As today’s known Bank of America announced their assets is 1.7 trillion. On August 23, 2007 the company announced a $2 billion dollar repurchase agreement for Countrywide Financial. Today in world stock market BOA Company’s stock price is $46.13 with 45,494,177 volumes. http://corp.bankofamerica.com/public/public.portal?_pd_page_label=products/bafi/default ----------------------- Bank of America Key Numbers |Company Type |Public (NYSE: BAC)...
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...The Bank of America - Capital Structure GB 550-01 Financial Management TABLE OF CONTENTS The Bank of America Abstract I. Introduction History of the Bank of America A. Corporate Structure B. Bank Ranking C. Impact from Recession II. Financial Markets A. Domestic Markets B. Global Markets C. Mergers and Acquisitions III. Capital Structure A. Growth Opportunities B. Business Risks C. Tax Position IV. Conclusion V. Summary VI. References Abstract This paper explores the turmoil the banking industry has faced during this current economic recession focusing primarily on the Bank of America, the role they played during the recession and their focus to conquer the global market to become the largest financial institution in the world. The Bank of America is operating in over 150 countries with over 6,000 retail banking offices and over 18,000 ATMs in the United States. During this recession, the Bank of America’s ranking fell considerable and were forced to lay off over 100,000 employees. The Bank of America operates offices in more than 20 global countries including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Canada. A critical move for the Bank of America is investing their attention to the growth of their overseas operations. Currently, the Bank of America owns a minority stake in China Construction Bank. The Bank’s interest in growing overseas is motivated by opportunities...
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...“The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world” (The Great Depression-History.com 2012). The great depression is said to have begun after the First World War, It was a time of hardship and uncertainty. Although the great depression began in the United States it spread throughout the globe and affected almost every country. It brought about drastic declines in output, severe unemployment, and serious deflation. Many countries such as Britain, Germany and France came out of the war with large debts to pay, this was due to the fact that they had been borrowing from The United States of America, after its entrance into financial crisis the rest of the countries depending on its financing would inevitably enter down turn and face similar crisis. World War 1 also left many industrialized countries weak and in large debts, they needed to finance the rebuilding of their economies and industries that were damaged during the war, this made it harder for them to recover. There are a number of explanations to as what brought about the great depression in 1929. These are structural and monetary weaknesses as well as a number of specific events that enhanced the effects from one country to another and eventually to all major industrialized countries. What Caused the great depression? The depression was also said to have partially started with the crash of the stock market in...
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...INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Ph.D. Professional Assessment Evaluation I Standard Bank´s expansion strategy in Latin America Andrea Valenzuela Rivas Abstract After the 2008 crisis, Standard Bank needed a strategy to continue with its grow being truthful to their emerging market presence vision. This paper analyzes the opportunity for the bank in a developing region, Latin America; considering the opportunities and challenges its countries face. Emerging markets have institutional voids that need to be filled, Latin America is no exception; it needs expert companies to provide value added services that bring customers and suppliers closer. For Standard Bank is crucial to identify itself as an aggregator and distributor, and provide innovative distribution and product development to improve its chances of success in Latin America. I. ‐ Introduction The 150 years history of Standard Bank has proven its vision to be a major competitive financial organization in emerging markets throughout the world. The bank is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and it has representation in 17 Sub Saharan countries and also in 16 countries that have an emerging market view (Standard Bank, 2009). Barriers for trade and investment have been coming down in the last 25 year and the volume for exports and investments have grown, forming a single, interdependent and global economic system. Countries around ...
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