Investment banking pertains to certain activities of a financial services company or a corporate division that consist in advisory-based financial transactions on behalf of individuals,corporations,and governments. Traditionally associated with corporate finance,such a bank might assist in raising financial capital by underwriting or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of debt or equity securities. An investment bank may also assist companies involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and provide ancillary services such as market making,trading of derivatives and equity securities,FICC services or research. Most investment banks maintain prime brokerage and asset management departments in conjunction with their investment research businesses. As an industry,it is broken up into the Bulge Bracket,Middle Market,and boutique market.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) was the United States Government's Development finance institution until it merged with the Development Credit Authority (DCA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to form the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). OPIC mobilized private capital to help solve critical development challenges and in doing so,advanced the foreign policy of the United States and national security objectives.
JPMorgan Chase &Co. is an American multinational financial services firm headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is the largest bank in the United States and the world's largest bank by market capitalization as of 2023. As the largest of Big Four banks,the firm is considered systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. Its size and scale have often led to enhanced regulatory oversight as well as the maintenance of an internal "Fortress Balance Sheet" of capital reserves. The firm is headquartered at 383 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and is set to move into the under-construction JPMorgan Chase Building at 270 Park Avenue in 2025.
Microfinance is a category of financial services targeting individuals and small businesses who lack access to conventional banking and related services. Microfinance includes microcredit,the provision of small loans to poor clients;savings and checking accounts;microinsurance;and payment systems,among other services. Microfinance services are designed to reach excluded customers,usually poorer population segments,possibly socially marginalized,or geographically more isolated,and to help them become self-sufficient. ID Ghana is an example of a microfinance institution.
James Dimon is an American billionaire business executive and banker,who has been the chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase since 2005. Dimon was previously on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Dimon was included in Time magazine's 2006,2008,2009,and 2011 lists of the world's 100 most influential people. Forbes estimated his net worth at $1.6 billion as of June 2023.
J.P. Morgan &Co. is an American financial institution specialized in investment banking,asset management and private banking founded by financier J. P. Morgan in 1871. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions,the company is now a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase,one of the largest banking institutions in the world. The company has been historically referred to as the "House of Morgan" or simply Morgan. For 146 years,until 2000,J.P. Morgan specialized in commercial banking,before a merger with Chase Manhattan Bank led to the business line spinning off under the Chase brand.
George Muñoz is an American businessman,CPA and attorney. He is the president and co-founder of Muñoz Investment Banking Group which is primarily focused on financing and investments in the Emerging Markets Countries as well as in the U.S. Hispanic community. He is also a partner at Tobin &Muñoz,a Chicago-based law firm focused on commercial litigation,white collar investigations and litigation,and international transactions,where he works out of the firm's Chicago and Washington,D.C. offices.
The World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) is an international trade association and development agency for credit unions headquartered in Madison,Wisconsin. WOCCU aims to improve lives through credit unions and other financial cooperatives through advocacy,development and education. WOCCU's member associations account for over 86,450 credit unions in 118 countries with over 375 million members worldwide.
Mary Ellen Iskenderian is president and CEO of Women's World Banking,the world's largest network of microfinance institutions and banks.
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) is the association or trade group for the global financial services industry. It was created by 38 banks of leading industrialized countries in 1983 in response to the international debt crisis of the early 1980s,and has since expanded to represent more than 400 firms from more than 60 countries. IIF members include commercial and investment banks,asset managers,insurance companies,professional services firms,exchanges,sovereign wealth funds,hedge funds,central banks and development banks.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is an independent federal agency in the United States created as the successor regulatory agency of the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB),the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO),and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development government-sponsored enterprise mission team,absorbing the powers and regulatory authority of both entities,with expanded legal and regulatory authority,including the ability to place government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) into receivership or conservatorship.
Timothy Franz Geithner is an American former central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009,following service in the Clinton administration. Since March 2014,he has served as president and managing director of Warburg Pincus,a private equity firm headquartered in New York City.
Blythe Masters is a British Private Equity executive and former financial services and fintech executive. She is a former executive at JPMorgan Chase,where she was widely credited for developing the credit default swap as a financial instrument. She is founding partner of FinTech private equity firm,Motive Partners,CEO of Motive Capital Corp,an Advisory Board Member of the US Chamber of Digital Commerce,a Board Member of GCM Grosvenor,Forge Global,CAIS Group,and Credit Suisse Group.
Women's World Banking is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic support,technical assistance and information to a global network of 55 independent microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks that offer credit and other financial services to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world,with a particular focus on women.
AccessBank Liberia (ABL),is a microfinance commercial bank in Liberia. It is one of the commercial banks licensed by the Central Bank of Liberia,the national banking regulator.
Hassan Abdallah is an Egyptian financier. He is the current governor of the Central Bank of Egypt. He previously held the chief executive officer position of the Arab African International Bank (AAIB),a regional financial services institution that was Egypt's first Arab multinational bank. Abdalla joined the AAIB in 1982 and,by 2002,had become CEO. In parallel to his executive mandate,Abdalla has also been an adjunct finance professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC) for the past 18 years. In August 2022,Hassan Abdallah was appointed as the new acting governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) by presidential decree.
Mimi Alemayehou is a development finance executive who has served as Executive Vice President of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and as United States Executive Director of the African Development Bank.
Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta,is a Ghanaian investment banker who serves as the Minister for Finance and Economic Planning in the cabinet of Nana Akufo-Addo. He was a co-founder of Databank Group,a Ghanaian financial services company,and served as executive chairman until 2012 when he resigned. He was nominated by President Nana Akufo-Addo on 10 January 2017 and assumed office on 27 January 2017 as finance minister.
In South Africa the Department of Public Enterprises is the shareholder representative of the South African Government with oversight responsibility for state-owned enterprises in key sectors. Some companies are not directly controlled by the Department of Public Enterprises,but by various other departments. Further,not all state owned entities are registered as companies.
The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is a development finance institution and agency of the United States federal government. DFC invests in development projects primarily in lower and middle-income countries. First authorized on 5 October 2018 by the BUILD Act,the independent agency was formed on 20 December 2019 by merging the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) with the Development Credit Authority (DCA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID),as well as with several other smaller offices and funds.
