Bank of America Fast Facts

Last updated July fourteenth, twenty twenty six

B of A has huge reach and capabilities. It powers the economy in the U S and globally.

  • We operate across the U S, its territories and more than 35 countries with approximately 211,000 employees.
  • We serve nearly 70 million clients, institutional investor, medium and large corporate clients globally.
  • 3,500 financial centers and approximately 15,000 A T Ms in more than 100 markets in the U S
  • We are the number one small business lender in the U S (source F D I C) serving 4 million small businesses.
  • We manage approximately four point nine trillion dollars in client balances across our wealth management businesses.
  • We provide Global Markets services to approximately 8,000 clients globally in debt, equity, commodity and foreign exchange markets.
  • Named #2 global research provider in 2025 by Extel.
  • Top four in Global Investment Banking Fees (source: Dealogic: June 30, 2026)
  • We have relationships with seventy eight percent of the Global Fortune 500 and ninety six percent of the U S Fortune 1,000 companies. (2025)

Technology & Innovation

Global Technology

  • We spend fourteen billion dollars annually, of which more than four point one billion dollars is allocated to new initiatives, including A I. These investments help us to deliver innovative experiences and value to clients.
  • Our global technology team consists of approximately 60,000 employees around the world.

Artificial Intelligence

  • We’ve been using A I for over a decade to enhance client experiences, improve productivity and workforce efficiency, strengthen operational excellence, and optimize performance.
  • Today, we leverage A I at scale across our global operations. It is embedded within every business line and areas including global technology, operations, and training.
  • Across the company, more than 30 real world use cases have been fully deployed and are delivering measurable impact, with a robust pipeline of more than 300 use cases in development.
  • A great example of which is Erica®, our virtual A I financial assistant, which we launched in twenty eighteen. Erica delivers seamless client interactions and empowers employees through reliable day-to-day support:
    • Erica helps more than 24.6 million clients manage their financial lives
    • 3.6 billion Erica interactions since launch in twenty eighteen, including 1.9 billion proactive, personalized insights delivered to clients
    • ninety-seven percent of employees have adopted Erica for Employees since twenty twenty
    • forty-five percent of clients on the CashPro platform use our A I-based solutions, CashPro Chat with Erica and Forecasting, to manage their banking activities
    • Over 23 million ask MERRILL® and ask Private Bank® interactions annually

Our AI capabilities reduce manual work and repetitive tasks, enabling employees to focus on serving clients and driving growth, for example:

  • 12,000 wealth management professionals use A I to assist with meeting-related activities, increasing their capacity to serve additional clients
  • Global Corporate & Investment Banking professionals use A I for research and presentation preparation to enhance client coverage and growth opportunities
  • 19,000 software developers have experienced efficiency gains of over twenty percent through real-time coding assistance
  • 18,000 customer service representatives receive real-time guidance in seconds, helping them resolve client needs faster, making client service more personalized and efficient
  • Global Payments Solutions sales and servicing representatives use A I to expedite response time to client inquiries

Digital Capabilities & Adoption

  • 60 million clients use our award-winning digital capabilities. ninety-four percent of client interactions are now digital.
  • Last year, Bank of America clients digitally connected with their finances a record 30 billion times, a fourteen percent increase year over year.
  • Erica, the first widely adopted A I-driven virtual financial assistant, has surpassed 3.6 billion client interactions since its twenty eighteen launch. Clients now interact with Erica more than 200 million times per quarter.
  • We have more than 25.5 million active Zelle users, up five percent year over year. These users sent and received 495 million transactions worth a record one hundred sixty billion dollars in Q two twenty twenty-six, up eleven percent and fifteen percent, respectively. Among our Small Business clients, 2 million used Zelle to send and receive 59 million payments worth thirty-eight billion dollars in Q two twenty twenty-six, up fifteen percent and twenty-two percent year over year.
  • Life Plan, a personalized digital experience to define and pursue financial goals, has been used by more than 23 million clients since launching in twenty twenty.
  • CashPro is our digital banking platform used by more than 35,000 corporate and commercial clients around the world. In twenty twenty-five, clients approved a record one point two trillion dollars in payments through the CashPro App, averaging thirty-eight thousand dollars every second.

Payments

  • We facilitate more than four point five trillion dollars in payments for individual clients per year (twenty twenty-five calendar year).
  • For corporate clients, we facilitated more than four hundred fifty trillion dollars of payments in twenty twenty-five. This includes processing employee payrolls, paying suppliers and vendors, corporate credit card payments, facilitating client investments, etc.
  • We process an average of one point nine trillion dollars of wire transfers a day globally for all types of clients.

Culture of Innovation

  • We have 8,700 talented inventors in 16 countries and 42 U.S. states.
  • Bank of America holds approximately 8,600 granted patents and pending patent applications. More than 1,700 of these patents are A I focused – representing twenty percent of the patent portfolio – and more than half have already been granted.

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