“It’s interesting,” says Reynolds “There aren’t as many similar investment banks as you might think. There are similar sounding firms, but very few, if any, are a similar size and are as diversified as we are.” - Mark Reynolds
After starting with six employees, Loop now numbers around 160, with hopes of surpassing 200 by the end of the year, through both growth and acquisition. Though the number of employees may not match some of the bigger banks, Loop maneuvers its manpower to be a jack of all trades.
taken from article in 2011
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Two years after losing an election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000 to Cong. Bobby Rush, Barack Obama, an Illinois state senator at the time, invited a group of influential Black business leaders to brunch at his Hyde Park home.
There, he announced his intent to run for the U.S. Senate, and asked for their support. The rest is history still in the making. The fact that a state lawmaker had access to such an elite group is not unusual. But that such an elite group of Black business leaders exists in one city is unusual.
Some might challenge my assessment based on sheer numbers of Black entrepreneurs and CEOs in cities such as Atlanta and New York. But put the statistics aside, and Chicago emerges with a distinction no other city can claim: Our Black business leaders find strength in their numbers, and actually work together to benefit the broader African American community.
Five of Chicago’s top Black CEOs are featured on the cover of the June issue of BW Chicago, Business Week magazine’s special Chicago edition. They are Frank Clark of ComEd; John Rogers of Ariel Capital Management; Valerie Jarrett of Habitat; Jim Reynolds of Loop Capital; and Quintin Primo of Capri Capital Partners.
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain have made government ethics a centerpiece of their campaigns, and each has sought to distance himself from Washington's influence business.
Yet Obama and McCain have relied on key fundraisers whose names surfaced in separate federal corruption cases relating to lobbying for government contracts.
In 2003, James Reynolds, a Chicago investment banker who is a member of Obama's national finance committee, was recorded on FBI wiretaps arranging what prosecutors said was a "sham" consulting contract with a woman they called the "paramour" of a mayoral adviser in Philadelphia. His firm later won $300,000 worth of city contracts.
https ://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-25/australia-joins-norway-it-cuts-clinton-foundation-donations-0
http: //thefederalistpapers.org/us/list-of-countries-that-interfered-in-the-election-for-hillary-clinton
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Both the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative do voluntarily provide on their web sites general disclosures about all donors, including governments. For instance, CHAI notes that Ireland and New Zealand gave somewhere between $5 million and $10 million at some time since CHAI began filing separately from the Clinton Foundation in 2010. It received $25 million or more from Norway, Australia and the United Kingdom.
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https ://voiceofpeopletoday.com/wikileaks-hillary-full-isis-donor-names/
hiya GEORGIE!