| Bank of America Corporation is a bank holding and a financial holding company. It is a financial institution, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses, corporations and governments with a range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. Through its banking subsidiaries and various non-banking subsidiaries, it provides a range of banking and non-banking financial services and products through six business segments: Deposits, Global Card Services, Home Loans & Insurance, Global Commercial Banking, Global Banking & Markets and Global Wealth & Investment Management. In June 2011, it sold Balboa Insurance Company. On September 29, 2011, it ceased to be a substantial holder in Bow Energy Limited. On November 24, 2011, it announced that Bank of America Corporation ceased to be a substantial holder in the Company. In December 2011, its Bank of America Merrill Lynch closed its private banking unit in Brazil. |
