Anonymous ID: 381a51 Sept. 10, 2020, 8:11 a.m. No.10589130   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Citigroup's Jane Fraser to become first woman to head a Wall Street bank

 

Citigroup Inc (C.N) on Thursday named consumer banking head Jane Fraser to succeed Michael Corbat next year as the bank’s chief executive officer, making her the first woman to lead a major Wall Street bank. Fraser, 53, has been a rising star in the financial industry, with a career spanning investment banking, wealth management, troubled mortgage workouts and strategy in Latin America – a key business for Citigroup. Her promotion to CEO was widely expected since being elevated to Citigroup president last year, and was celebrated as a step in the right direction for an industry that has few women or diverse executives in its top ranks. “Great news for the company and for women everywhere!” tweeted Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) operations and technology chief Cathy Bessant. “A big and fantastic moment.”Citigroup shares were up 1% in morning trade.Indeed, Fraser joins a small group of women who have broken through the glass ceiling to reach the C-suite at major financial firms.

 

In addition to Bessant, there is Fidelity Investments CEO Abigail Johnson, JPMorgan’s consumer lending head Marianne Lake and its finance chief Jennifer Piepszak, and Alison Rose, CEO of British bank NatWest. Fraser launched her career at Goldman Sachs in its mergers & acquisitions department in London and then worked for Asesores Bursátiles in Madrid. She joined Citigroup 16 years ago and is credited internally with helping the bank recover after the financial crisis, when it had to take $45 billion in taxpayer funds to survive. Through the years, she has run client strategy in Citi’s investment bank, as well as its private bank, its mortgage business and its operations in Latin America, which accounted for 14% of annual revenue at the end of 2019. Her name was floated last year as a potential CEO candidate at Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N), before the board settled on former JPMorgan executive Charles Scharf. In October, Fraser was promoted to the role of president and tasked to head its global consumer bank, a move that was widely seen as a precursor to her elevation.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-citigroup-ceo/citigroups-jane-fraser-to-become-first-woman-to-head-a-wall-street-bank-idUSKBN26124I

Anonymous ID: 381a51 Sept. 10, 2020, 8:19 a.m. No.10589190   🗄️.is đź”—kun

U.S. has charged 57 people in PPP fraud cases, Justice Department says

 

The Justice Department has charged 57 people since May with trying to steal more than $175 million from the Paycheck Protection Program designed to help Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, a department official said on Thursday.

 

Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian Rabbitt said coordinated criminal rings have worked to defraud the program. “The involvement of these rings isn’t surprising, but it is particularly troubling to us here at the department, we will be focusing on these types of cases, going forward,” he said at a news conference.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-fraud/u-s-has-charged-57-people-in-ppp-fraud-cases-justice-department-says-idUSKBN2612LU