Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat sent out an internal memo congratulating the bank's new class of managing directors — we got the entire list of 220 names

Alex Morrell | The title is the highest distinction at the bank. Nearly 140 of the new promotes are in the firm's dealmaking and sales and trading group.

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Bill.com is surging in its first day of trading. We talked to its CEO and a big backer about the fintech unicorn's IPO and why it's good to be boring post-WeWork.

Shannen Balogh | The cloud software and payments company's IPO comes at the end of a rocky year for unprofitable startups looking to go public.

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Robinhood is rolling out a way to buy $1 slices of stocks in a bid to lure first-time users. The launch comes after bigger rivals matched it on zero commissions.

Dan DeFrancesco,Rebecca Ungarino | The move underscores heightened competition playing out in a battle over fees that's gripped the financial services industry for months.

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Wells Fargo is sweetening incentives for financial advisers to find clients on their own and not just rely on internal referrals

Rebecca Ungarino | Wells Fargo Advisors just shared its 2020 pay grid, showing its focuses for growth after adviser headcount and asset levels fell this year.

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Private equity firms like Warburg, Blackstone and Ares are embracing something they once shunned: the selling of their own investors' stakes. Here's what 5 insiders say is driving the explosive growth of this nearly $100 billion market.

Casey Sullivan | The volume of deals in the secondaries market surged around 35 percent from 2018. And insiders say that growth will likely continue.

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A top tech banker compares companies that are struggling to innovate to a $16.2 million futurist sculpture – here's the full 2020 outlook memo he sent to staff

Meghan Morris | Aryeh B. Bourkoff, a tech, media, and telecom banker who founded LionTree Advisors, said "profitable, scaled businesses" that have survived new challengers should last for at least the next five years.

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Buzzy media company theSkimm is seeking top-level hires as it plots a 2020 expansion into areas like finance and commerce

Lucia Moses | The company has been looking to diversify its revenue with products that its audience will pay for as its user growth slows.

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The CFO of credit card startup Brex said that its 'made sense' to take on $200 million in debt financing as the company picks up the pace on growth

Megan Hernbroth | This is the second round of debt financing for the $2.6 billion startup, following a $100 million round in April from Barclays.

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Frat bros, sketchy accounting, and a regional auditor: The short-seller who predicted $1 billion Celadon's bankruptcy two years ago reveals what went wrong at the trucking giant

Bradley Saacks,Rachel Premack | Prescience Point founder Eiad Asbahi said trucking giant Celadon's accounting practices made him skeptical.

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