Bank of America consolidated borrowings during the credit crisis peaked at $48.1 billion, nearly double the amount of money that Lehman Brothers requested but did not get from the Federal Reserve prior to its bankruptcy filing on September 14, 2008. Today's study incorporates Bank of America bond price data as of August 20, 2013 to analyze the potential risk and return to bondholders of Bank of America Corporation, which recently completed a in various notes due in 2014.