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Mat Ishbia
Mat Ishbia is an American mortgage finance executive, CEO of United Wholesale Mortgage since 2013, who bought the NBA's Phoenix Suns and WNBA's Phoenix Mercury in 2023.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812) was a Frankfurt coin dealer and court agent who founded the Rothschild banking dynasty, whose five houses became the world's largest bank.
Mellon family
The Mellon family is an American banking and industrial dynasty founded by Judge Thomas Mellon, who opened a Pittsburgh bank in 1870 and built one of America's great fortunes.
Michiel le Roux
Michiel le Roux, born 1949, is a South African banker who co-founded Capitec Bank in 2001, led it as first chief executive officer, and became a billionaire through his shareholding.
Mikhail Fridman (Михаил Маратович Фридман)
Mikhail Fridman (Михаил Фридман), born 1964 in Lviv, is a businessman who co-founded Alfa Group, built Alfa-Bank into Russia's largest private bank, and co-founded LetterOne.
Morgan family
The Morgan family is an American banking dynasty that, through Junius Spencer Morgan and his son J. Pierpont Morgan, built a private international banking house between 1854 and 1913.
Muhammad Yunus (মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস)
Muhammad Yunus (মুহাম্মদ ইউনুস), born 1940 in Chittagong, is a Bangladeshi economist who founded Grameen Bank, pioneered microcredit, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, and led Bangladesh's interim government from 2024 to 2026.
Nathan Mayer Rothschild
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, also known as Nathan M. Rothschild, was a Frankfurt-born banker who founded N M Rothschild in London in 1809 and became Britain's leading merchant banker.
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840–1915) was an English merchant banker who headed N M Rothschild & Sons and became the first Jewish peer in 1885.
Olivier Sarkozy
Olivier Sarkozy is a private equity investor in financial services who led The Carlyle Group's financial services franchise from 2008 to 2016 before founding Further Global Capital Management in 2017.
Omeed Malik
Omeed Malik is an American financier who runs 1789 Capital, an "America First" investment firm, and previously headed hedge fund advisory at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Paolo Ardoino
Paolo Ardoino is the chief executive officer of Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, since December 2023, while also serving as chief technology officer of the Bitfinex exchange.
Pierre Louis-Dreyfus
Pierre Louis-Dreyfus (1908–2011) was a French shipowner and grain-trade executive who flew 81 bombing missions with the Free French and led the Louis Dreyfus group.
Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein
Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein, also known as Max von Liechtenstein, is a banker and son of Prince Hans-Adam II who has led LGT Group since 2006.
Rana Kapoor
Rana Kapoor is an Indian banker who co-founded Yes Bank in 2003, built it into India's fourth-largest private sector bank, and was arrested in March 2020 in money-laundering and loan-fraud cases.
Ratanji Tata
Ratanji Tata, formally Sir Ratan Tata, was a Parsi financier and philanthropist of Bombay, second son of Jamsetji Tata and a Tata & Sons partner from 1896.
Raymond Bonham Carter
Raymond Bonham Carter (1929–2004) was a British merchant banker at S.G. Warburg, a grandson of H. H. Asquith, and father of actress Helena Bonham Carter.
Richard S. Fuld Jr.
Richard S. Fuld Jr., known as Dick Fuld, is an American banker who led Lehman Brothers from 1994 until its 2008 bankruptcy, the largest in US history.
Robert Morris (financier)
Robert Morris was a Philadelphia merchant who financed the American Revolution as Superintendent of Finance from 1781 to 1784 and founded the Bank of North America.
Roberto Calvi
Roberto Calvi, known as "God's banker", was an Italian banker and chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, whose 1982 collapse left over $1 billion missing; he was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London.
Rockefeller family
The Rockefeller family, known as the Rockefellers, is an American industrial, banking, and philanthropic dynasty founded by John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil dominated American petroleum from 1870.
Roger Jenkins (banker)
Roger Allan Jenkins is a British former banker who became Barclays' highest-paid employee, led its Structured Capital Markets unit, and was acquitted of fraud in 2020.
Rothschild banking family of England
The Rothschild banking family of England, founded by Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836), ran the London bank N M Rothschild & Sons, probably the world's biggest in the early 19th century.
Rothschild family
The Rothschild family is a Jewish banking dynasty founded in Frankfurt by Mayer Amschel Rothschild, whose five sons built the world's largest bank by the 1820s.
Ruth Porat
Ruth Porat, born 1957, is a British-born finance executive who was Morgan Stanley's CFO before serving as Google and Alphabet's CFO from 2015 to 2024, then Alphabet's president.
Safra Catz
Safra Catz (צפרא כץ), born in Israel in 1961, is an American executive who was Oracle's CEO from 2014 to 2025 and now serves as Executive Vice Chair.
Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill, known as Sandy Weill, is an American banker and dealmaker who assembled Citigroup, the first American financial company since 1933 to combine banking, securities, and insurance.
Sashidhar Jagdishan
Sashidhar Jagdishan is an Indian banker who joined HDFC Bank in 1996, became its CFO in 2008, and has served as Managing Director and CEO since October 2020.
Sassoon family
The Sassoon family was a Baghdadi Jewish merchant dynasty that built David Sassoon & Co. in Bombay from 1832, dominating the opium and cotton trades between India and China.
Scott Tucker (businessman)
Scott Alan Tucker is an American businessman convicted in 2017 of racketeering for a payday lending operation that took over $2 billion from 4.5 million borrowers.