BrokerDealers That Do Dare To Be Different: Diversity & Inclusion

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BrokerDealer.com blog update takes a different tact in this post and sends a salute to 6-pack leader Citigroup, along with interest-aligned boutique firms Mischler Financial Group and Williams Capital for a focus on something other than its trading PnL. The topic? Diversity & Inclusion. Sounds corny, sounds like a social program that merely meets the ‘check the box’ approach by those who know they have to seem good to get paid. But then again, because this platform connects with broker-dealers across the US, as well as throughout the rest of the free world in which capitalism reigns, the team at BrokerDealer.com knows that the initiative highlighted here is nothing short of genuine.

Mischler Financial Group, the financial industry’s oldest minority firm owned and operated by Service-Disabled Veterans [and the securities industry’s only federally-certified SDVBE] along with Williams Capital, the industry’s leading African-American owned brokerdealer have taken great pride in playing a supporting role in the below Citigroup-produced video profiling the firm’s unqualified dedication to diversity and inclusion that Citi, one of the world’s largest banks and a Top 25 Fortune corporations maintains across their entire ecosystem.

A founder of Veterans On Wall Street (VOWS) along with Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, as well as being “a lead book-runner” in multiple year-round initiatives to advance the support of many great causes, Citi is a true thought leader on the topic of D&I within the context of not only the financial services sector, but also within the framework of global corporation best practices.

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The video below, which formally aired April 10 (also available on the Citi blog) is uniquely impactful thanks to the influential roles played by Citi leaders Kate Oddo, Director of Debt Capital Markets, Patrice Altongy Managing Director Fixed Income Capital Markets, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Karen Papazian, Director, Dealer Lending Operations, Toyota Financial Services. The presentation speaks volumes as to Citi’s D&I-driven relationship with Toyota Motors Inc. (NYSE:TM) wholly-owned subsidiary, Toyota Motor Credit Corporation (TMCC), one of the global capital markets’ most focused Issuers of securities, and indisputably, one of the corporate world’s most respected D&I practitioners.

The clip below, entitled “Wall Street Leaders Can Dare to be Different” profiles just one of many approaches on the part of Citi to further the importance of D&I initiatives, and represents a welcome and increasingly growing trend taking place across Wall Street.

Sharing the same philosophy that Citi is dedicated to, the leadership and team at Mischler Financial Group is unabashedly dedicated to the thesis that Diversity & Inclusion programs strike at the heart of corporate best practices. We believe that those who embrace the tenants of D&I are likely to be better for it in the eyes of their stakeholders , which necessarily include respective employees, the consumers and communities they serve, and the investors/shareholders who look to corporate leaders to always deliver better performance.

The 2015 Wall Street Letter Award For Best BrokerDealer(s) Goes To…

wsl award 2015Financial Industry publication Wall Street Letter held it’s 5th Annual Award Ceremony on Feb 5 and feted the top dozen brokerdealers for best-in-class products and services, as well as recognizing an assortment of the financial industry’s leading technology firms and exchanges.

In connection with above, BrokerDealer.com blog is honored to profile the award for “Best Research-BrokerDealer” , which was determined by a panel of industry judges. The winner for this category was Mischler Financial Group, the financial industry’s first and foremost Finra member firm that is owned and operated by Service-Disabled Veterans.

Feb 5, 2015 New York- Mischler Financial Group, Inc., the securities industry’s oldest investment bank/institutional brokerage owned and operated by service-disabled veterans was recognized by industry peers last night and awarded “Best Research-BrokerDealer” during the 5th Annual Wall Street Letter Awards held at New York City’s Cipriani 42nd Street.

This is the second year in a row that Mischler has been feted for its excellence in research content by a panel of judges representing both buy-side investment managers and sell-side broker-dealers. Runners-up in the Best Research-BrokerDealer category included two other contenders: 125-year old super regional and full-service investment brokerage Stifel Nicolaus and financial service sector investment bank Sandler O’Neill + Partners.

The 5th Annual Wall Street Letter Award program encompassed 36 categories of excellence, including broker-dealer products and services, trading technology vendors and major exchanges. More than125 firms were nominated across the various categories, and Mischler Financial was the sole diversity firm recognized for being “best-in-class.”

Accepting the award on behalf of Mischler Financial Group was Ron Quigley, Managing Director of Fixed Income Syndicate and Primary Sales and author of “Quigley’s Corner,” the firm’s daily debt capital market commentary, which includes granular insight to corporate bond market issuance and rates trading. Quigley’s Corner is distributed to more than 1000 Fortune corporate treasurers, leading investment managers, public plan sponsors and senior executives across the sell-side’s fixed income syndicate universe. Mischler also provides bespoke global macro strategy observations, equity trading insight and consumer market sector analysis to its institutional client base.

Noted Dean Chamberlain, CEO of Mischler Financial, “It is both an honor and a privilege to be recognized by such an esteemed group of industry professionals and a further testament to our value-add capabilities, especially when compared to the most recognized and respected firms in the financial services industry.”

Wall Street BrokerDealer Aims To Support Veterans

tradersmagazine BrokerDealer.com blog update courtesy of Traders Magazine

In honor of the upcoming U.S. Veteran’s day holiday, one Wall Street institutional broker is increasing the amount of profits it donates that are aimed to help U.S. servicemen and women.

Veteran’s Day is next Tuesday, November 11.

Mischler Financial. a California-based investment bank and institutional brokerage owned and operated by Service-Disabled Veterans, announced it is expanding its current give-back program. This year, the broker is donating a portion of its profits to three additional and separate non-profit organizations in honor of those who have served the country’s military.

The new charities are:

The Bob Woodruff Foundation
Children of Fallen Patriots
BuildOn.org

Dean Chamberlain, CEO Mischler Financial Group

Dean Chamberlain, CEO Mischler Financial Group

“Through our ongoing commitment to Veterans on Wall Street, this Veteran’s Day we are honored to pledge our financial support to these new organizations,” said Dean Chamberlain, chief executive and principal of Mischler Financial Group. “We also look forward to continuing our commitment to the non-profit devoted to inspiring our young generation to drive positive change through community service and education.”

Headquartered in Newport Beach, California with regional offices in Stamford, CT, Boston, MA and Chicago, IL., Mischler Financial Group is a federally-certified minority broker-dealer and a Service-Disabled Veterans Business Enterprise. It provides capital markets services, agency-only execution within the global equities and fixed income markets and asset management for liquid and alternative investment strategies

Veteran-Owned Broker-Dealer Helps Raise $100k in Wounded Warrior SoldierRide

BrokerDealer.com blog salutes the 300+ cyclists who turned out Sept 27 in Lexington MA to raise over $100k on behalf of Wounded Warriors in the Boston #SoldierRide

A special commendation goes to securities industry veterans Joe Digiammo, Head of Equities for boutique firm Mischler Financial Group (the brokerdealer industry’s oldest firm owned and operated by service-disabled vets)  and Fidelity Investment’s portfolio manager Fergus Sheil.

Fidelity Investment Fergus Sheil (l) and Mischler Financial's Head of Equities Joe Digiammo (r)

Fidelity Investment Fergus Sheil (l) and Mischler Financial’s Head of Equities Joe Digiammo (r)

 

Alibaba IPO: Minority BrokerDealer Owned by Service-Disabled Vets Wins IPO Selling Group Mandate

Courtesy of CNBC coverage (see below clip), Mischler Financial Group, the financial industry’s oldest minority broker-dealer owned and operated by service-disabled veterans was one of the few minority broker-dealers chosen by Alibaba executive management to serve as a member of the selling group for the world’s largest IPO to date. BrokerDealer.com salutes the capital markets and syndicate team at Mischler Financial.