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The Charlotte market executive for Merrill Lynch shared the ‘2026 Forbes ‘Best in State Wealth Advisors’ celebrating his team on LinkedIn yesterday – Several years ago, I was first hand witness to a peer female intern enduring weeks of ongoing sexual harassment by one of those ‘celebrated’. He literally referred to himself as the ‘Wolf…

A male MD told me that what I was complaining about at Citi is the same at every other large bank. He questioned whether I’d ever worked at one before — implying I was naive or uninformed about how the world works. At my age and level of experience, I am neither naive nor uninformed…

The Financial Times is reporting today that Citi’s former head of the family office previously served as Jeffrey Epstein’s personal banker – a detail one might reasonably expect any competent organisation to identify during the most elementary due-diligence checks. The article drily observes, it “begs the question of what Citi’s process actually involves.” This on…

I’ve read many of the stories shared on this platform and most focus on behaviour in the front office. What’s missing from that narrative is an honest acknowledgement that the same behaviour, harassment, intimidation, and discrimination towards women, was also deeply prevalent in ops. My time in the Citigroup London in operations years ago now…

A former Director from DART who joined ERM Product into an MD role exhibited a troubling pattern of conduct toward a woman on her team — one who held greater seniority and demonstrated stronger leadership than the MD apparently recognized or took the time to understand. When the decision was ultimately made for the targeted…

At Citi, I requested an Ethics investigation and submitted a lot of documentation in support of my claims. When the investigator called me, she did not engage with the submitted documentation. They stuck with narrative — as if they had chosen not to look at specific aspects to avoid surfacing any uncomfortable truths. The complaint…