CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Wachovia Corp. chief executive Ken Thompson was pushed out Monday as head of the nation's fourth-largest bank, becoming the latest financial services executive to be ousted amid ...

Many of the job cuts would be done through attrition, said Ken Thompson, Wachovia’s chief executive, chairman and president. Wachovia would get SouthTrust’s 60 branches in Texas, which ...

Big firms are slowly dismantling their financial supermarkets. Not Ken Thompson, who's moving Wachovia into the front ranks of the nation's banks. Of the names bandied about as potential suitors ...

Just as swiftly, the focus of First Union Chairman Ken Thompson and Wachovia Chairman L.M. “Bud” Baker Jr. now has shifted from simply clearing the way for the merger to figuring out what will ...

Wachovia CEO Ken Thompson made the PR rounds earlier today, granting a wide-ranging interview to the Associated Press in which the chief executive of the fourth largest bank in the U.S. affirmed ...

and more than two years after an ill-timed acquisition of California mortgage lender Golden West Financial Corp., Wachovia Corp. said Monday that board members have forced CEO Ken Thompson to ...

Charlotte-based LendingTree has a new shareholder: Former Wachovia CEO Ken Thompson, who is shown here in a 2008 file photo. Chuck Burton ASSOCIATED PRESS Charlotte-based LendingTree has a new ...

The report from the New York Times this morning that Merrill CEO Stan O'Neal (left) reached out recently to his counterpart at Wachovia, Ken Thompson, has lit a fire under beleaguered Merrill ...

Five years after its merger with First Union, Wachovia is winning plaudits for top-flight customer service and organic growth. But Ken Thompson's appetite for deals-most recently the $26 billion ...

"Once again our team delivered double-digit earnings growth," said Ken Thompson, Wachovia chairman and chief executive. "Our focus on cost control and risk management continues to provide ...

CHARLOTTE -- "I'm deeply disappointed with our first quarter results," Chief Executive Ken Thompson told analysts ... by Thomson Financial had expected Wachovia to earn 40 cents a share on revenue ...

Wachovia Corp. chief executive Ken Thompson was pushed out Monday as head of the nation’s fourth-largest bank, becoming the latest financial services executive to be ousted amid turmoil in the U ...