Investment banking

The biggest U.S. bank leaned on old-fashioned lending in the third quarter to weather a slump in fixed-income trading.

There’s an opportunity for global banks willing to break down the internal silos that stifle good ideas.

Barbara Byrne, a lifetime achievement award winner, says the pace of adding diversity to C-suites must increase quickly.

For her trailblazing career on Wall Street, Byrne will be honored on Thursday at American Banker’s Most Powerful Women in Banking gala in New York.

When Stephanie Cohen earned the chief strategy officer’s job at Goldman Sachs in January, she was told she had a blank sheet of paper. Cohen responded by, among other things, launching an internal incubator for new business ideas.

Spilkin's education in math and programming, uncommon in investment banking, has allowed her to bring a disruptive approach to problem-solving at Goldman Sachs.

A new Goldman Sachs initiative called "Launch with GS" aims to make venture capital and private equity investments in startups founded by women, says Stephanie Cohen, the company's chief strategy officer.

In our "On Life" series of videos, top banking executives like Goldman Sachs' chief strategy officer, Stephanie Cohen, answer three quick questions about themselves.

The mass retirement of baby boomers and the growing affluence of women are the biggest disruptive forces in the industry, says Gunjan Kedia. Here's how she's dealing with them.

The youngest member of Goldman Sachs' management committee spent two decades climbing to the top of a male-dominated field — and took on some very tough assignments along the way.

Elinor Hoover's passion for helping women-run firms raise capital goes hand in hand with her mission to increase women's visibility within the upper ranks of Citi's management.

Bouazza has taken major steps to restructure the executive teams at HSBC’s offices in Latin America, identifying high-achieving bankers — many of them women — who had been previously overlooked for promotion to senior positions.

Even with more than 30 years of experience in banking, Julie Monaco still finds value in the advice a mentor passed on to her as a young, rising executive.

Gunjan Kedia left a big job at State Street for an opportunity to have more direct impact on the lives of individual investors.

As Monique Herena sees it, financial firms and investors are bypassing huge opportunities by failing to invest in industries that could increase economic opportunity for women across the globe.

Under Liz Myers, J.P. Morgan's capital markets group was the No. 1 underwriter for IPOs in the U.S. and Latin America last year. Now she has her sights set on China.

After being involved in more than 70 syndicated finance transactions involving noninvestment grade companies, KeyBanc Capital Markets has graduated to lead bookrunner status, under Amy Carlson.

Citigroup promoted bankers Tyler Dickson and Manolo Falco to run a reconstructed version of its investment banking operations.

Small and midsize banks are most at risk as commercial loan volume fails to ignite; the cutbacks are partly the result of lower origination volume.

BBVA Compass said on Wednesday that it was partnering with the broker-dealer Brean Capital to offer a variety of capital and investment banking services for community banks and correspondent banks.