But Mr Winters has a reputation - acquired when he was co-head of JP Morgan Investment Bank - for being his own person.
That was despite encouragement from analysts at Morgan Stanley to sell the euro in favor of dollars on Friday, following dovish comments from European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet on Thursday.
Under the gaze of television cameras, Yoshizawa Yasuyuki, the 42-year-old head of the Bank of Japan's capital-markets division, was driven away in a black sedan.
The effort really got started in April 2003, when HSBC lured John Studzinski from Morgan Stanley (nyse: MWD - news - people ) to take over as global co-head of the investment bank, along with long-time HSBC insider Stuart Gulliver .
Fakhruddin Ahmed, a former World Bank economist and central-bank governor, was appointed the new head of Bangladesh's caretaker administration.
On September 29th Jamie Dimon reshuffled his generals, ousting Bill Winters, co-head of the group's giant investment bank, and replacing him with Jes Staley, formerly head of the asset-management business.
The growing adoption rates of payment technologies by small-business owners might partially explain why credit demand for working capital from small firms remains stubbornly low, even as their balance sheets and credit-worthiness improve, according to Robb Hilson, head of Bank of America small-business segment.
Instead, Douglas Flint, who had been the bank's finance director, took over as chairman, Mr. Geoghegan left the bank, and investment- banking head Stuart Gulliver became CEO.
He recently broke with the conservative Likud party he helped found -- which did not support his pullout from Gaza and parts of the West Bank -- and is running for re-election as head of the moderate, newly formed Kadima Party.
"Hong Kong is still the major center, but this has gone beyond Asia, " said Augusto King, Royal Bank of Scotland's co-head of debt capital markets in Asia, talking about investors' interest in dim-sum bonds, also known as CNH bonds, where the "H" stands for Hong Kong.
McDonough, a former executive of First Chicago, did a 10-year stint as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (nyse: BK - news - people ) before becoming the first chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a U.S. regulatory entity overseeing the accounting profession, in 2003.
"Expectations of bank support now are getting priced into the market, " said the head of European sovereign-bond trading at a global bank.
The warning comes from the Group of Thirty - a body made up of senior international economists including the former head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Jean-Claude Trichet.
The mighty Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan had its head office in Otemachi on an urban site that overshadowed the Masakado shrine.
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And another, Josef Tosovsky, now an ardent free-marketeer, will get back his old job as head of the central bank, having been running the country's stop-gap government as caretaker.
The goal is to remove people who aren't "pulling their weight, " said one investment-banking head at a major bank, adding that "banks are overbuilt" in relation to the work available.
With a Gallic esprit that irritated its allies to distraction, France has nominated Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the Bank of France, to lead the new central bank Europe requires when the single currency is launched.
In a little-noticed comment during the weekend's meetings, Yi Gang, a deputy governor of China's central bank and head of the country's foreign-exchange reserves, said that China aimed to bring its current-account surplus below 4% of GDP within 3-5 years.
He is sending the head of the US Export-Import Bank, on a fact-finding mission to Argentina and Brazil.
Dmitry Mints, who is known for his love of London and the traditional English breakfast, studied international commerce at Moscow State Institute of International Relations and is a former head of international business at SDM-Bank.
"Everyone thinks they need to be in Asia, because of China, but it's difficult to make money, " said Eduardo Leemann, head of Zurich-based Falcon Private Bank, the former private-banking arm of American International Group Inc.
His one-size-fits-all savings bank model flipped the banking industry on its head, leading the charge in online and mobile banking.
The head of Germany's second-largest bank, Commerzbank, Martin Blessing says Greece should declare itself insolvent and then restructure its debt.
But Moses Harding, head of asset-liability management at IndusInd Bank said the bank needed to do a "balancing act between growth and inflation".
There had been rumours that Mr Weber was not going to put himself forward to replace Jean-Claude Trichet as head of the European Central Bank (ECB).
He told Forbes in 2002 his career goal was to succeed Weill as Citigroup CEO and become the first African-American to head up a large money center bank (see: " A Marked Man").
McDonough, a former executive of First Chicago, did a 10-year stint as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before becoming the first chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a U.S. regulatory entity overseeing the accounting profession, in 2003.
Overseas, Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, said he welcomed the pledge of European leaders to publish the results of their stress tests on banks and indicated that the need to buy troubled government bonds in order to calm markets appears to be diminishing.
Head for the Bank of China Tower designed by China-born American architect IM Pei in 1990.
Last year he was the head of the country's second-largest bank, Laiki, whose performance was a major factor in Cyprus' near financial collapse.
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