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Bank of America

# bank-of-america - Saturday 14 July, 2012

Visa and Mastercard pay out billions over alleged fixing of credit card fees

Millions of merchants in the US had sued the credit card giants over alleged fixing of card use fees.

# bank-of-america - Wednesday 20 June, 2012

From The Daily Edge Free Money

Man gets $1.5m in ATM error… and then gambles it away

Ronald Page now faces 15 months in prison after being unable to repay a bank which accidentally lent him $1.5 million.

# bank-of-america - Friday 25 May, 2012

The world’s best-performing asset in the last year… Irish government bonds

Anyone who bought Irish bonds second-hand 12 months ago must be feeling pretty smug by now…

# bank-of-america - Wednesday 21 March, 2012

250 jobs saved with part-sale of MBNA in Carrick-on-Shannon

Bank of America sells off part of the MBNA business in Carrick-on-Shannon, saving 250 of the 650 jobs there.

# bank-of-america - Tuesday 31 January, 2012

Tech giants join forces to end phishing emails

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, and PayPal are among the companies which have started a tough new approach to stopping scam emails.

# bank-of-america - Wednesday 30 November, 2011

S&P downgrades major US banks

The agency’s latest credit ratings downgrades include Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.

# bank-of-america - Wednesday 16 November, 2011

From TheJournal.ie 9 At 9

The 9 at 9: Wednesday

Nine things to know this morning…

From TheJournal.ie Fail

Oops… Check out Bank of America’s spectacular social media fail

Messages on a Bank of America Google Plus page questioned the bank’s reputation and made light of rising mortgage rates.

# bank-of-america - Monday 7 November, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Jobswatch

MBNA to shed 100 jobs in Leitrim

Bank of America has announced that it is seeking 100 redundancies at its credit card facility in Carrick-on-Shannon.

# bank-of-america - Monday 24 October, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Wikileaks

WikiLeaks to suspend publications over severe financial shortage

The whistleblowing website calls a temporary halt to publications, promising legal action against a “blockade” by financial companies.

# bank-of-america - Friday 2 September, 2011

US to sue over a dozen banks over mortgages: report

The lawsuit, reported in the New York Times, relates to alleged misrepresentation of the quality of mortgages during the boom.

# bank-of-america - Monday 15 August, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Monday

In your fix today: Dublin Fire Brigade faces a staff crisis, the regal origins of the Laois bog body, the girl who sleeps 23 hours a day, and what it’s like to see snow for the first time…

Hundreds of Irish jobs at risk, as US bank plans to cut card business

Bank of America – which owns the MBNA credit card company – is dropping its credit card business, which employs 1,000 here.

# bank-of-america - Tuesday 7 June, 2011

From The Daily Edge Payback

Bank is foreclosed from its own premises: homeowners win revenge after mistaken lawsuit

A couple were brought to court for not paying a mortgage they never took out. Their revenge? Foreclose on the bank.