William S. Haraf

Charles Schwab Bank operates as a federally chartered savings bank. It offers checking accounts, savings accounts, and mortgage services. The company is headquartered in Reno, NV.

Promontory Financial Group LLC provides strategy, risk management, and regulatory compliance consulting services. It specializes in asset-liability management and liquidity planning, capital planning and analysis, consumer protection, credit services, due diligence, examination and enforcement, financial benchmarks, governance and controls, and securities and derivatives. The company was founded by Eugene A. Ludwig in 2001 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.