Thomas Montag has not just led the global banking and markets businesses at Bank of America, he has dominated them. He was a leading figure in the rebuilding of the bank after the great financial crisis, the acquisition of Merrill Lynch and the departure of former chief executive Ken Lewis, who was blamed for the losses that followed his final rushed takeover.
Montag turned the acquisition of Merrill Lynch, a firm he had joined to run sales and trading just weeks before its 2008 rescue, from disaster to success.
Yesterday’s press release announcing his retirement points out that in the first half of 2021 the businesses Montag runs – all those that serve companies and institutional investors and including BofA Global Research and the global markets sales and trading businesses – contributed 46% of Bank of America’s revenues, up from 36% in 2009.
Those numbers barely hint at the story.
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