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Ralph Schlosstein, 58, joined investment bank Evercore last month to replace founder Roger Altman as president and chief executive. He bought $15m of Evercore equity upon his appointment. Mr Schlosstein [...]

Bob Kelly, 54, took over as chief executive of the Bank of New York Mellon in June 2007 at the peak of the financial boom and added the chairman's role [...]

banks Group keen to refund US Move to counter client concerns Bank of New York Mellon wants to be among the first round of US banks to repay Tarp money [...]

Schmidt cools media rescue speculation Google has considered buying a newspaper or using its charitable arm to support news businesses seeking non-profit status, but is now unlikely to pursue either [...]

Schmidt unlikely to buy news provider Websites helped to work better for revenue Google has considered buying a newspaper or using its charitable arm to support news businesses seeking non-profit [...]

Jimmy Dunne, 53, became head of Sandler O'Neill unexpectedly. The small Wall Street partnership used to have its headquarters on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center and was [...]

There are not many Harvard-trained lawyers who, after three months in the White House, would describe the highlight as the opportunity to appear alongside Big Bird and Elmo. Michelle Obama's [...]

An influential Democrat who was also one of the world's top-ten, highest paid hedge fund managers last year thinks he knows which book is at the top of the White [...]

As a child, Dave O'Reilly, Chevron's chief executive, was taught by his father, a general manager of a Dublin department store, to tackle the challenges life offers head-on. He was [...]

About $2.5bn in extra cash for consumers US homeowners could save close to $18bn on their mortgage repayments this year as record low interest rates allow millions of borrowers to [...]

Low rates increase disposable income US homeowners could save up to $18bn on their mortgage payments this year as record low mortgage rates allow millions of borrowers to refinance into [...]

Wilbur Ross, the 71-year-old peripatetic billionaire investor, is probably the best-known turnround financier in the US. WL Ross & Co, the firm he formed in 2000, has restructured $200bn in [...]

As the White House celebrates its first 100 days, a decidedly gloomier group on Wall Street has moved into the second of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief. The first, [...]

Shantanu Narayen, aged 45, is modest about his personal accomplishments - which include holding five patents - but passionate about technology, Silicon Valley and Adobe, the $3.6bn-a-year desktop software pioneer [...]

Duncan Niederauer, 49, assumed the position of chief executive at the world's largest stock exchange in December 2007, when the credit crunch was already biting but giving little indication of [...]

The March stock market rally that fuelled hopes of a broader economic recovery was deceptive because 'real money' investors remained on the sidelines, according to the chief executive of NYSE [...]

The March stock market rally that fuelled hopes of a broader economic recovery was deceptive because 'real money' investors remained on the sidelines, according to the chief executive of NYSE [...]

Some cultures are good at gloom. Britain's stiff upper-lip is displayed to best advantage in hard times. Frugal Germany seems built to survive downturns, as its chancellor can't quite resist [...]

The global economic crisis has bankrupted century-old institutions, brought down once-mighty industrial brands and shattered a generation's worth of assumptions about how financial capitalism ought to operate. Now it is [...]

Wall Street veteran Felix Rohatyn shot to international prominence in the 1970s when he managed the negotiations that enabled New York City to restructure its debt and resolve its financial [...]

This week's monster G20 summit has already delivered the usual combination of diverting fluff and pre-packaged substance. The fluff includes President Barack Obama's gift of an iPod to the Queen, [...]

This week's monster G20 summit has already delivered the usual combination of diverting fluff and pre-packaged substance. The fluff includes President Barack Obama's gift of an iPod to the Queen, [...]

American presidents sometimes give interviews in the Oval Office. On this occasion Barack Obama chooses the nearby Roosevelt room, named after Teddy Roosevelt and his distant relative Franklin Delano Roosevelt, [...]

Roger Altman, 62, has spent his career at the crossroads of Wall Street and Washington. As chairman of Evercore Partners, a boutique bank he founded in 1996 focusing on mergers [...]

It has been a good week for US plutocrats and technocrats. The Andrew Cuomo-prompted give-back of the bulk of the $165m in AIG bonuses appeased the angry, anti-bankster mob, and [...]

On inauguration day, after the euphoric mass celebration on the Mall and before the black-tie balls that evening, leading Democrats gathered for dinner in Washington's Park Hyatt Hotel. It was [...]

A decade ago, as the Asian crisis enfeebled the erstwhile tiger economies of that region and pushed Russia into default and devaluation, Time magazine produced an iconic cover. Arrayed in [...]

Obama adviser urges global cash injections Crisis overrides need to tackle imbalances The Obama administration has no choice but to take strong public action to 'save the market system from [...]

Former chief executive claims rescue bungled Insurer 'will be broken up into many pieces' Hank Greenberg, the former chief executive of AIG, has accused the US government of bungling the [...]

Obama adviser urges global cash injections Crisis overrides need to tackle imbalances Barack Obama's top economic adviser has urged world leaders to pump more public money into the economy in [...]

Ken Lewis, chief executive of Bank of America, has grown accustomed to public scrutiny in recent months. Initially lauded as a Wall Street hero for his high-stakes acquisition of Merrill [...]

Interview Barney Frank Chairman, House financial services committee Legislator says the troubled asset relief programme was mismanaged, write Alan Beattie and Chrystia Freeland Congress is in no mood to vote [...]

Interview Barney Frank Chairman, House financial services committee Legislator says the troubled asset relief programme was mismanaged, write Alan Beattie and Chrystia Freeland Congress is in no mood to vote [...]

Ken Moelis, who built a name for himself at some of Wall Street's best-known banks during the past three decades, founded merger advisory firm Moelis & Company in July 2007 [...]

David Childs has been global managing partner of law firm Clifford Chance since 2006. A graduate of Sheffield University and University College London, he joined the firm as a trainee [...]

Leo Apotheker describes himself as a 'citizen of the world'. Born in 1953, the son of Jewish parents who fled their home on the Polish-Ukrainian border to escape the Nazis [...]

America's Gilded Age ended on September 15, 2008, the day Lehman Brothers went broke. But many of Wall Street's erstwhile plutocrats did not realise that meant an end to their [...]

On Friday, August 17 2007, 21 of Wall Street's most influential investors met for lunch at George Soros's Southampton estate on the eastern end of Long Island. The first tremors [...]

Cover Story - Profile He may have predicted the global economic crisis, but how is the pioneering financier protecting his fortune (and his legacy)? Portrait by Visko Hatfield Soros's most [...]

Cover Story - Profile He may have predicted the global economic crisis, but how is the pioneering financier protecting his fortune (and his legacy)? Portrait by Visko Hatfield On Friday, [...]

Canadian-born Mort Zuckerman is the co-founder and chairman of commercial real estate firm Boston Properties, the business to which he owes his fortune. His avocations are journalism and public punditry, [...]

US The new president is determined to tackle the biggest issues, says Chrystia Freeland Optimism is America's default setting, and the leaders who prosper in this country have tended to [...]

James Chanos, president of Kynikos Associates, is the world's biggest short-seller. While short-sellers are rarely popular among politicians and CEOs, the current economic crisis is a salubrious business environment for [...]

LaSonya Chapple, a single woman from Detroit, was wearing her late grandfather's sweater vest under all her other layers of coats and scarves. Most of those clothes were to keep [...]

LaSonya Chapple, a single woman from Detroit, was wearing her late grandfather's sweater vest under all her other layers of coats and scarves. Most of the clothes were to keep [...]

LaSonya Chapple, a single woman from Detroit, was wearing her late grandfather's sweater vest under all her other layers of coats and scarves. Most of those clothes were to keep [...]

LaSonya Chapple, a single woman from Detroit, was wearing her late grandfather's sweater vest under all her other layers of coats and scarves. Most of those clothes were to keep [...]

When Alan Mulally moved to Ford Motor from a senior job at Boeing in September 2006, it was in the most precarious position of any Detroit carmaker. Ford was haemorrhaging [...]

automobiles Alan Mulally, Ford Motor's chief executive, has warned that the US car market may not return to its pre-crisis highs even after an economic recovery, in a further sign [...]

It is no surprise that the mood in the US has been muted this holiday season. In recent years, as plutocrats prospered and the rest of the country felt rich [...]