I'm not in banking but when posting resume positions for a company that no longer exists (or in this case its entity might have changed) I would put "Company X, now Company XYZ". In your case: "Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, now Bank of America Merrill Lynch".

Again - I'm not in your field but I did this on my consulting oriented resume and it outlined that I worked for a small company that was later bought by a household name...

 
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I'm not in banking but when posting resume positions for a company that no longer exists (or in this case its entity might have changed) I would put "Company X, now Company XYZ". In your case: "Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, now Bank of America Merrill Lynch".

Again - I'm not in your field but I did this on my consulting oriented resume and it outlined that I worked for a small company that was later bought by a household name...

I would advise against this. MLWM is a very established name, and the culture of ML is so strong that some divisions still refer to themselves as ML...

Anyone in the industry looking at your resume will know what you mean, and putting that would just seem superfluous

 

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