Bank of America Merrill Lynch Hires Bryan Weadock as Head of Americas Fixed
Income Sales
NEW YORK, Apr. 9 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Bank of America Merrill Lynch today announced that Bryan Weadock will
join the company's Global Markets group as head of Americas Fixed Income
Sales in July 2009. Weadock was most recently head of Investor Client
Management at JP Morgan Chase & Co. in New York. He will report to Mike
Meyer, global head of Sales for the Global Markets platform.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is a leader in both new issuance and
secondary market trading of fixed income products, including corporate bonds,
syndicated loans, municipal financing, asset- and mortgage-backed products,
rates, currencies and commodities.
"Our combined Bank of America Merrill Lynch platform brings a powerful
breadth of fixed income products and services to our clients, demonstrated by
our first quarter rankings," said Tom Montag, president of Global Markets.
"Our unparalleled range of products, global liquidity and deep team of
talented people enable us to attract some of the best leaders in the
industry."
"Bryan has tremendous leadership skills and his experience in fixed
income sales is second to none," said Meyer. "We look forward to Bryan
joining us and having him drive our fixed income sales strategy."
Mr. Weadock has spent the last 17 years at JP Morgan Chase and prior to
his most recent appointment, he was head of North American Fixed Income Sales
for four years. Weadock's other senior sales roles include head of U.S.
Credit Sales and head of U.S. High Grade Credit Sales. Weadock joined JP
Morgan Chase in 1992 as a bank analyst in credit research.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is an undisputed leader in fixed income
products, having swept the new issuance league tables in the U.S. for the
first quarter. The company's first place rankings include: U.S. high grade
corporate bond issuance, U.S. high yield corporate bond issuance, municipal
bond issuance, U.S. syndicated loans, U.S. leveraged loans, and USD
government guaranteed bond issuance. The company additionally ranked second
in U.S. ABS/MBS issuance.(1)
(1) Source: All rankings per Dealogic, except for municipal bond issuance
and USD government guaranteed bond issuance, which are Thomson Reuters
rankings.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is one of the world's largest financial
institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market
businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing,
asset management and other financial products and services. The company's
corporate, commercial, investment banking, and sales and trading businesses
operate under the Bank of America Merrill Lynch brand. Bank of America
Merrill Lynch focuses on companies with annual revenues of more than $2.5
million; middle-market and large corporations; institutional investors;
financial institutions; and government entities. It provides innovative
services in M&A, equity and debt capital raising, lending, trading, risk
management, research, and liquidity and payments management. Bank of America
Merrill Lynch serves clients in more than 150 countries and has relationships
with 99 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and 88 percent of the
Fortune Global 500. Many of the services for corporate and institutional
clients are provided by Banc of America Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and/or other affiliates of Bank of
SOURCE: Bank of America
CONTACT: Louise Hennessy, Bank of America,
+1-646-855-1403
louise.hennessy@bankofamerica.com;
(BAC)
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