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• Ballmer GroupGiving vehicle of Steve and Connie Ballmer; an LLC.
• Banca Privata ItalianaBank controlled by Michele Sindona; collapsed in 1974.
• Banco AmbrosianoMilan bank that collapsed in 1982.
• Bank of AmericaU.S. bank.
• Bank of EnglandCentral bank of the United Kingdom; it administered the payment of slavery compensation in 1835–43.
• Bank of ItalyItaly's central bank.
• Bank OneU.S. bank that merged with JPMorgan Chase in 2004.
• Bank voor Handel en ScheepvaartDutch bank in the Thyssen family’s business empire; owner of Union Banking Corporation’s stock.
• BarberiniItalian maker of glass sunglass lenses, bought by Luxottica in 2018 on conditions set by Italy’s competition authority.
• BarclaysBritish bank headquartered in London.
• Barclays Global InvestorsBarclays' investment management business, which pioneered the iShares exchange-traded funds; bought by BlackRock in 2009.
• Bausch & LombAmerican optical company, based in Rochester, New York; maker of Ray-Ban until it sold its sunglass business in 1999.
• BayerGerman chemicals company that took over Monsanto in 2018.
• Bear StearnsU.S. investment bank sold to JPMorgan Chase in 2008.
• Belgian Congo 15 Nov 1908 – 1960Belgium's colony in the Congo from 15 November 1908 to 1960.
• Belgian governmentThe government of Belgium.
• Berger Action FundFund that steers Hansjörg Wyss’s money to advocacy groups.
• Berkshire HathawayU.S. holding company run by Warren Buffett.
• BiogenU.S. biotechnology company; maker of the Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm.
• Black Beyond DataResearch project at Johns Hopkins University that studied the Lloyd’s archive on the slave trade.
• BlackRock 1988 –American asset manager founded in 1988.
• BlackRock AdvisorsInvestment adviser registered with the SEC; a subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc.
• BlackRock Fund AdvisorsInvestment adviser registered with the SEC; a subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc.
• Blackstone 1985 –American alternative asset manager founded in 1985 by Stephen A. Schwarzman and Peter G. Peterson.
• Blackstone Financial Management 1988 – Jul 1992Fixed-income asset manager formed in 1988 by Larry Fink and seven partners in partnership with The Blackstone Group; renamed BlackRock in 1992.
• Blue Origin 2000 –American spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000.
• Board of Peace 2025 –Transitional administration for Gaza welcomed by Security Council Resolution 2803 in November 2025.
• Bobek International Children's Charitable Fund Feb 1992 –Children's charity in Kazakhstan, founded in February 1992 by Sara Nazarbayeva.
• BoeingU.S. aerospace company that makes airliners and military aircraft.
• Bolsheviks 1903 – 8 Mar 1918Lenin's party, a faction from 1903; in March 1918 it renamed itself the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
• BPBritish oil company, headquartered in London; it bought Standard Oil of Ohio in 1987 and merged with Amoco in 1998.
• British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd.British company, a defendant in the federal case as the parent of the British American Tobacco group’s interests in Brown & Williamson.
• British governmentThe government of the United Kingdom.
• Brookhaven National LaboratoryU.S. laboratory on Long Island that ran the medical program for the exposed Marshallese from 1956 to 1998.
• Brown & WilliamsonU.S. cigarette maker, now part of Reynolds American.
• Brown Brothers HarrimanNew York private investment bank.
• Brown Steering Committee on Slavery and JusticeCommittee of faculty, students and administrators that reported on Brown’s ties to slavery in 2006.
• Brown UniversityPrivate university in Providence, Rhode Island, chartered in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island.
• Building America’s FutureNonprofit that the Brennan Center said appears to be the largest dark money group working to elect Trump in 2024.
• Bureau of CorporationsU.S. agency that investigated big business in the early 1900s.
• Business InsiderU.S. news organization; its reporters ran the “Conflicted Congress” project, first published in December 2021.
• Business RoundtableAssociation of chief executives of large U.S. companies.