Obituaries

The New York Stock Exchange disclosed the news on Monday of the sudden passing of its head of International Capital Markets.

Until August, Bell was the executive director for loan guaranty service at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where he was credited with growing the program.

Lebda, who died over the weekend in an ATV accident, built one of the first online financial marketplaces in 1998.

The former Goldman Sachs executive was reportedly shot accidentally by a Las Vegas man targeting the National Football League.

Lipkin, who built Valley National Bancorp from a small community bank into a regional institution with 200 branches in four states, passed away this week at age 84.

Fischer, who served on the central bank boards of both Israel and the United States and served as the Federal Reserve vice chair from 2014 until 2017, died Saturday at age 81.

FNB Corp marked the grand opening of its new downtown Pittsburgh headquarters this week. The bank owns and occupies the majority of the 26-story tower in the city's Hill District, a new addition to the city's skyline and one of the few new towers built in the city's business district in recent years. And long-time bank executive Robert Goldstein has died at 84.

Sen. Tim Johnson, a former three-term senator and five-term U.S. representative for South Dakota, died after complications from a recent stroke.

Kaplan rose though the municipal finance department to become one of the first handful of female partners at Goldman Sachs in 1990.

Known by his nickname Buz, John Gorman helped the Conference of State Bank Supervisors launch its nationwide cooperative agreement in 2006 and the National Multistate Licensing System for mortgage lenders two years later.

The former Obama administration official and MBA head died unexpectedly on Jan. 16.

The Berkshire Hathaway legacy of Warren Buffett's longtime business partner includes large checks written to national banks as well as curt remarks about the industry's shortcomings. Munger died on Tuesday, a few weeks before of his 100th birthday.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group's Chief Executive Officer Jun Ohta, who pursued an aggressive expansion abroad during his four years at the helm of Japan's second-largest bank, has died. He was 65. 

Known for his personal style and his support of affordable housing, the former MBA president also earned an ignominious distinction as the face of the Financial Crisis.

The fintech founder was also Square's first chief technology officer and the chief product officer of blockchain-based payments company MobileCoin.

He was chief executive officer and chairman of the bank, then known as BankAmerica Corp., from 1990 until his retirement in 1996. 

Pembroke, who had led the association since 2015, died Monday at age 55. Jerry Saalsaa, the organization's senior vice president and chief administrative officer, has been interim CEO since July and will continue in that role.

Neil Ray Sommers, who was 74, was succeeded by Bret Fisher, Achieve's director of operations the past three years.

Corrigan thrived on crisis situations, a colleague said. He received plenty of practice in 25 years at the Fed and another two decades at Goldman Sachs.

Ryan, the chief executive of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors since 2011, died unexpectedly Monday night at his home in Washington. He played a critical role in representing states’ interests in some of the most important banking policy debates of recent decades.