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  2. Investment banking - Wikipedia

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    The investment banking industry, including boutique investment banks, have come under criticism for a variety of reasons, including perceived conflicts of interest, overly large pay packages, cartel-like or oligopolistic behavior, taking both sides in transactions, and more. [50] Investment banking has also been criticized for its opacity. [51]

  3. History of investment banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The market for financial services evolved dramatically in the post-Civil War era. One of the most significant changes was the emergence of "active investment banking" in which investment bankers influenced the management of client companies through sitting on the finance committees and even directly on the board of directors of those companies.

  4. Jefferies Group - Wikipedia

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    Jefferies Group LLC is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company that is headquartered in New York City.The firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research, and asset management.

  5. List of investment banks - Wikipedia

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    This list of investment banks notes full-service banks, financial conglomerates, independent investment banks, private placement firms and notable acquired, merged, or bankrupt investment banks. As an industry it is broken up into the Bulge Bracket (upper tier), Middle Market (mid-level businesses), and boutique market (specialized businesses).

  6. Separation of investment and retail banking - Wikipedia

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    The separation of investment and retail banking aims to protect the "utility" aspects of day-to-day banking from being endangered by losses sustained by higher-risk investment activities ("casino banking"). This can take the form of a two-tier structure in which a company is banned from doing both activities, or enforcing a legal ring-fence ...

  7. Glass–Steagall legislation - Wikipedia

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    Sen. Carter Glass (D–Va.) and Rep. Henry B. Steagall (D–Ala.-3), the co-sponsors of the Glass–Steagall Act. The sponsors of both the Banking Act of 1933 and the Glass–Steagall Act of 1932 were southern Democrats: Senator Carter Glass of Virginia (who by 1932 had served in the House and the Senate, and as the Secretary of the Treasury); and Representative Henry B. Steagall of Alabama ...

  8. 1933 Banking Act - Wikipedia

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    Provisions of the 1933 Banking Act that were later repealed or replaced include (1) Sections 5(c) and 19, which required an owner of more than 50% of a Federal Reserve System member bank's stock to receive a permit from (and submit to inspection by) the Federal Reserve Board to vote that stock (replaced by the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 ...

  9. Anton Levy - Wikipedia

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    Anton Levy (born October 18, 1974) is an American businessman. He is co-president, managing director and chairman of Global Technology at General Atlantic, a private equity firm based in New York City, where he has worked since 1998. [1]