What on earth was Merrill Lynch thinking when it unleashed its new online discount brokerage this summer? The platform, Merrill Edge, made some of its 15,000-plus financial advisors uneasy. Fear of ...

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Bank of America is shopping online for customers who are not quite wealthy enough to make the cut at Merrill Lynch, posing a threat to entrenched discount brokers ...

In our August issue (and in several earlier web stories), we wrote about Merrill Lynch's improved online offering for do-it-yourself investors. The theory, ML executives said, was let's get assets ...

Thomas Halloran, who was the managing director overseeing product strategy and acquisition for Merrill Edge, will be president of ING Financial Partners, ING spokeswoman Maggie Dietrich said in a ...

(Dow Jones) Traditional e-brokers aren't likely to lose their most-prized customers-active traders-to Bank of America Corp.'s new Merrill Lynch online brokerage. Merrill, for its part, isn't ...

Merrill Edge appeals to casual traders with a powerful combination of strong customer service and competitive pricing. The online broker integrates seamlessly with parent company Bank of America: ...