BofA puts it on plastic and baseball.

• Position: Charlotte - Bank of America - Brief Article

Charlotte-based Bank of America will create the country's second-largest credit-card processor when it closes on its $1.4 billion cash purchase of Louisville, Ky.-based National Processing, expected in the fourth quarter. BofA will combine the company, which handles debit-card, credit-card and other electronic transactions for about 700,000 merchants in North America, with its merchant-services division. Bank of America Merchant Services will be based in Louisville and will have about $250...