For a Wall Street technocrat with a reputation for keeping a low profile, John A. Thain has a renegade streak. The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. president, named chief executive of the New York Stock ...

When John Thain became Merrill Lynch’s CEO in early 2008, he hired Michael S. Smith Design to revamp his office suite, spending approximately $1.22 million according to documents. By comparison, Smith ...

The shotgun marriage of Merrill Lynch’s John Thain and Bank of America’s Ken Lewis already has ended in divorce. And in the process, Thain has added another Wall Street big to an already long list of ...

John Thain - American businessman, investment banker, and currently chairman and CEO of the CIT Group. Thain was the last chairman and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch before its merger with ...

UPDATE: In a Daily Beast/CNBC exclusive, Charlie Gasparino reveals how CIT’s new CEO, John Thain, spent over $1 million and hired the Obamas' decorator to redecorate his office at Merrill Lynch in ...

Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain told CNBC that the brokerage firm's huge fourth-quarter loss resulted from investments made by his predecessor and that Bank of America was well aware of the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – CIT Group Inc (CIT.N) has hired former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain as its new chief executive, the commercial lender said late on Sunday, wagering that the well-traveled ...

Can the man who saved the NYSE revive a badly mauled Merrill Lynch. Taking on a wounded bull was the last thing John Thain needed. He'd already played Mr. Fixit at the New York Stock Exchange, where ...

Former head of Merrill Lynch John Thain likes what he's doing as CEO of CIT Group and is buying up shares of the company to show it. Thain bought 40,000 shares of CIT Group for $1.19 million yesterday ...

John Thain, who was Merrill Lynch & Co.'s chief executive before being ousted a year ago, has held talks to become head of CIT Group Inc., the commercial lender that emerged from bankruptcy last month ...

(Reuters) - CIT Group Inc <CIT.N> said Chief Executive Officer John Thain, who was appointed to turn around the commercial lender after its bankruptcy, will retire in March and be replaced by veteran ...

Since we're podcasting today about ex-Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain, NPR's David Folkenflik sends this sneak peek at his regular column: As we segue from the golden age of Bashing the Media to the ...