The FINANCIAL -- Bank of America Corporation on October 29 announced the Board of Directors authorized a regular quarterly cash dividend on Bank of America common stock of $0.01 per share, payable on December 24, 2009, to shareholders of record as of December 4, 2009.

The FINANCIAL -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch on October 28 announced the expansion of its global algorithmic trading platform into Brazil to meet increasing demand from international and local investors for more sophisticated trading products designed for Brazil's Bovespa.

The FINANCIAL -- The Obama Administration and senior congressional Democrats hope to exercise more government control over big banks to keep them from failing, but voters don’t seem too sympathetic right now.

The FINANCIAL -- According to RIA Novosti, Russia's Central Bank said on October 29 it would cut its key lending rate by 0.5 percentage points to 9.5% per annum from October 30, following a slowdown in consumer price growth.

The FINANCIAL -- Deutsche Bank (XETRA: DBKGn.DE / NYSE: DB) on October 29 reported results for the third quarter and first nine months of 2009. Net income for the quarter was EUR 1.4 billion, up from EUR 414 million in the third quarter 2008.