The Power 25: Leaders in Finance

The most influential people in the world of investment and banking today.

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To help make sense of the shifting landscape of Wall Street, we introduce our first ranking of the 25 most powerful people in the world of investment banking.

Our list includes bank CEOs, star traders and high-priced rainmakers, and ranges from New York to London to Beijing. Subjective to be sure, our ranking nonetheless highlights some incontestable features about the industry during a time of historic transformation.

Click on the names below to read the executive profiles.


1 James Dimon Chief Executive Officer, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

2 Lloyd Blankfein Chief Executive Officer, Goldman Sachs Group

3 Josef Ackermann Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank

4 Robert Diamond Jr. President, Barclays

5 Brady Dougan Chief Executive Officer, Credit Suisse

6 James Gorman Chief Executive–designate, Morgan Stanley

7 Thomas Montag President, Global Banking and Markets Bank of America Merrill Lynch

8 Anshu Jain Head of Global Markets Deutsche Bank

9 Kenichi Watanabe Chief Executive Officer, Nomura Holdings

10 Gary Cohn President and COO, Goldman Sachs Group

11 Jes Staley Chief Executive Officer, Investment Bank JPMorgan Chase & Co.

12 Wang Dongming Chairman, Citic Securities Co.

13 John Havens Chief Executive Officer, Institutional Clients Group Citigroup

14 Alex Wilmot-Sitwell Co–Chief Executive Officer UBS Investment Bank

15 Stuart Gulliver Chief Executive Officer, Global Banking and Markets HSBC Holdings

16 David Heller Co-Head, Global Securities Division Goldman Sachs Group

17 H. Rodgin Cohen Chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell

18 Li Jiange Chairman, China International Capital Corp.

19 Paul Taubman Co-President–designate, Institutional Securities Morgan Stanley

20 André Esteves Chief Executive Officer, BTG Pactual

21 Antonio Weiss Head of Investment Banking Lazard

22 Andrea Orcel Executive Chairman, Banking and Markets Bank of America Merrill Lynch

23 Richard Friedman Head of Goldman Sachs Capital Partners Goldman Sachs Group

24 Kenneth Moelis Chief Executive Officer, Moelis & Co.

25 Kenneth Griffin Chief Executive Officer, Citadel Investment Group
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