Fleet Financial Group’s purchase of BankBoston Corp., announced this weekend, ends a minidrought in big bank mergers but may not signal a rainstorm of deals for the rest of this year. The $16 billion ...

BankBoston has in Brazil over 140 branches, 4.800 employees and 8.8 billion US dollars in assets. Itaú Bank will also have exclusive rights to acquire BankBoston operations in Chile and Uruguay, plus ...

EVENT: Fleet Financial Group merges with BankBoston in a $15 billion deal, making it the eighth-largest bank in the United States, with $180 billion in assets. RECAP: Four banks, including Mechanics ...

Johannesburg — STANDARD Bank has cleared the final regulatory hurdle to its acquisition of the Argentinian operations of BankBoston, with Argentina's central bank approving the purchase on Thursday.

BOSTON -- Sovereign Bancorp of Pennsylvania announced yesterday it is buying 278 Fleet and BankBoston branches for $1.4 billion, a deal that would make it the third-largest bank in the region. As part ...

BankBoston Corp. Chairman Charles Gifford said the merger route, which so many others are following, is an option for the bank. “For BankBoston, a combination with another institution has always been ...

Sao Paulo, Brazil -- Brazil's Banco Itau will buy the BankBoston franchises in Chile and Uruguay from North Carolina's Bank of America Corp. for about $650 million in stock, the companies said ...

NEW BEDFORD -- BankBoston regional President Kevin C. Bryant has been promoted to a high-ranking position in London, The Standard-Times has learned. A BankBoston spokesman would neither confirm nor ...