Bank of America Corporation , in Asturian : Bancu d'América , is a United States multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Charlotte , North Carolina . It is the second -l
argest bank holding company in the United States by assets . As of 2010, Bank of America is the fifth -largest company in the United States by total revenue , and the third-largest non-oil company (after Wal-Mart and General Electric ). In 2010, Forbes magazine listed Bank of America as the third-largest company in the world.