Industry

Financial Services Industry

Also Known As Finance Industry

Financials

The financial services industry provides economic services tied to finance, delivered through institutions such as commercial banks, investment banks and asset managers, and encompasses a broad range of activities including financial management, consumer finance, accountancy and investment management. The sector also produces financial products such as insurance, credit cards, mortgage loans and pension funds. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Financial Services Industry

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David E. Shaw

Financial Services Industry

FAQs

Why is the financial services industry considered controversial?

Its power and scale remain an ongoing controversy in many industrialized Western economies.

The finance industry is described as holding extragovernmental power and operating at a scale that affects domestic politics and foreign relations, particularly through the commercial banks that provide market liquidity and brokerage for large public companies and multinational corporations. That power and scale remain an ongoing controversy in many industrialized Western economies. One example is the Occupy Wall Street protest movement in the United States in 2011.

Connections

Associated With

Accounting

Accountancy is named among the industry's own core components (alongside investment banking, investment management and personal asset management), so the discipline that produces financial statements and audits sits inside the sector it makes possible.

Source Wikipedia, Financial Services

Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

Source Wikipedia, Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme

David E. Shaw

David E. Shaw founded the hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co. in 1988, pioneering quantitative and algorithmic trading in financial services.

Deutsche Bank Libor Manipulation Scandal

Equifax Data Breach

Finance

Financial services are, by the industry's own definition, economic services tied to finance and delivered by financial institutions; finance practice is the discipline the whole industry is organized around.

Source Wikipedia, Financial Services

FTX Collapse

Insurance Industry

The source states directly that insurance, as a financial intermediary, is a commercial enterprise and a major part of the financial services industry.

Source Wikipedia, Insurance

Legal Services Industry

Corporate law, compliance and regulatory work make the legal services industry a major service provider to the financial services industry.

Source Wikipedia, Legal Services

Payment for Order Flow

Pyramid scheme

Pyramid schemes, promising returns funded chiefly by new recruits' payments rather than legitimate revenue, are a fraud pattern regulators track within financial services.

Silicon Valley Bank Collapse

Visa Initial Public Offering

Wells Fargo Fake Accounts Scandal

Wirecard Accounting Scandal

Companies In Industry

3i Group plc

Source 3i (Wikipedia)

ABC Bank (Kenya)

Source Wikipedia: ABC Bank (Kenya)

Aberdeen Group plc

Source Wikipedia: Aberdeen Group

ABN AMRO

Source ABN AMRO (Wikipedia)

Ageas

Source Wikidata: Ageas

Agricultural Bank of China

Source Wikipedia, Agricultural Bank of China

Agricultural Development Bank of Ghana

Source Wikipedia, Agricultural Development Bank of Ghana

AIA Group

Source Wikidata: AIA Group

AIB Group

Source Wikipedia: Allied Irish Banks

Al Rajhi Bank

Source Alrajhi Bank (Wikipedia)

AL Sydbank A/S

Source Sydbank (Wikipedia)

Alior Bank

Source Wikipedia: Alior Bank

Alliance Witan plc

Source Alliance Witan (Wikipedia)

American Express Company

Source Wikipedia, American Express

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

Source Wikipedia: Ameriprise Financial

Aozora Bank, Ltd.

Source Aozora Bank (Wikipedia)

Ares Management Corporation

Source Wikipedia: Ares Management

Atlantic Bank of New York

Source Wikipedia: Atlantic Bank of New York

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited

Source Wikipedia: ANZ (bank)

Axis Bank

Source Wikipedia: Axis Bank

Azimut Holding

Source Azimut Holding (Wikipedia)

Bajaj Finance

Source Wikipedia: Bajaj Finance

Bajaj Finserv

Source Wikipedia: Bajaj Finserv

Banca Mediolanum

Source Wikidata: Banca Mediolanum

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Source Wikipedia: Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.

Source Wikidata: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.

Banco BPM

Source Wikipedia: Banco BPM

Banco Bradesco

Source Wikidata: Banco Bradesco

Banco Comercial Portugues

Source Wikipedia: Banco Comercial Português

Banco de Sabadell, S.A.

Source Banco Sabadell (Wikipedia)

Banco do Brasil

Source Wikipedia: Banco do Brasil

Banco Macro

Source Wikipedia: Banco Macro

Banco Santander, S.A.

A major financial services company; classified in the atlas financial-services-industry.

Bank Central Asia

Source Wikipedia: Bank Central Asia

Bank of America Corporation

A major financial services company; classified in the atlas financial-services-industry.

Bank of China Limited

A major financial services company; classified in the atlas financial-services-industry.

Bank of Ireland

Source Wikipedia: Bank of Ireland

Bank of Montreal

Source Wikidata: Bank of Montreal

Bank of New York

Source BNY (Wikipedia)

Bank of Nova Scotia

Source Wikipedia: Scotiabank

Bank Pekao

Source Wikipedia: Bank Polska Kasa Opieki

BankBoston

Source Wikipedia: BankBoston

Bankinter, S.A.

Source Bankinter (Wikipedia)

Barclays plc

A major financial services company; classified in the atlas financial-services-industry.

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

Source Wikipedia: Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

Bidvest Group Limited

Source Wikipedia: Bidvest Group

BizX

Source Wikipedia, BizX

BlackRock, Inc.

A major financial services company; classified in the atlas financial-services-industry.

Blackstone Inc.

A major financial services company; classified in the atlas financial-services-industry.

Block, Inc.

Source Wikipedia: Block, Inc.

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In Sector

Financials

Additional Source Wikipedia: Global Industry Classification StandardGICS: Diversified Financial Services

Sources

1. Wikipedia, Financial Services

Wikipedia

Lead section
Economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions.
Lead section, third paragraph
Styles of financial institutions include credit union, bank, savings and loan association, trust company, building society, brokerage firm, payment processor, many types of broker, and some government-sponsored enterprise.
Associated With: Accounting, lead section, accountancy component
Financial services include accountancy, investment banking, investment management, and personal asset management
Associated With: Finance, lead section, opening definition
Financial services are economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions.