When Sallie Krawcheck speaks, people listen. Former president of the Global Wealth & Investment Management division of Bank of America and No. 7 on Forbes' 2005 list of the world's top 100 most powerful women, Sallie certainly isn't shy about having an opinion.

In my experience, there are some financial practices that reasonable people agree are just plain wrong.

After 30 years of affiliation with the insurance industry, I have a deep appreciation for insurance agents. I wonder how many will be left five years from now?

The real-time information river is flowing 24/7 (including weekends!) and it's finally time for companies to understand that and get on board. The competitive gap is widening. I'm predicting the next disruption in financial services will be in the stock market research and industry analysis business.

The major challenges that face the international banking sector include cost, lack of capital and reputational issues. To rise to this challenge, banks must concentrate on becoming more customer-focused and serving real business.

Have you struggled to break into the financial services job market? The finance industry is actively seeking military talent due to their maturity, professionalism, and problem-solving abilities.

NEW YORK -- Todd Sears was just a little over a week into his first job on Wall Street more than a decade ago when his boss, a managing director, call...

Within the industry, the Tiburon CEO Summit has a certain "mystique" about it. Where can a CEO turn for unbiased advice and camaraderie? Other top-shelf execs!

It seems the world of finance is still in the throes of its own great recession. One hundred of the largest cities in the U.S. have shed a total o...

Financial services needs to fix itself and repair its relationship with consumers who have developed mistrust of an industry who has harmed them.

If your firm is not fully engaged with each of these powerful tools, it is a losing effort to both attract new clients and retain existing ones. These platforms work because users are so addicted to them and it's now time for financial services firms and others to get addicted to them too.

Social media has changed nearly everything we do -- 401(k) questions are no exception. These days, when something doesn't seem right, savvy investors take to Twitter, Facebook, and blogs to discuss and get answers.

That old adage that the customer is always right might be true. Whether it matters is up for debate. “Nobody really puts customers first,” Art...

If Aristotle ran Goldman Sachs, what sort of press do you think the company would be getting these days? How would employees, past and present, describe their culture?

Wall Street is one place where it pays to be a guy. For people in financial-sector jobs -- such as insurance agents, security sales agents, financi...

Apparently that whole economic crisis thing made Americans a little bit wary of the financial industry. Finance is one of the least-trusted profes...

Wall Street seems to have learned a neat trick: how to make more money while producing less. Between 1980 and 2010, the U.S. financial industry nea...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Wall Street cash bonuses for 2011 are expected to drop 14 percent and profits are expected to drop by half for the second year in a ro...