The Bank of America Corporation (Bank of America) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan. It is the second-largest banking institution in the United States and the second-largest bank in the world by market capitalization. Bank of America is one of the Big Four banking institutions of the United States and one of eight systemically important financial institutions in the U.S.