Wall Street goes bar hopping — Josh Harris exits Apollo — JPMorgan tries healthcare (again)

Subscribe to Insider View in browser       Good morning and welcome to Insider Finance. I'm Dan DeFrancesco, and here's what's on the agenda today: The Wall Street crowd is flocking to oyster bar happy hours and running up $6,000 wine tabs at dinner as NYC comes back to life.  Security firms for the ultra-rich are getting ready for a surge in business as the wealthy look to travel again.   Meet the five JPMorgan executives who have the best shot at taking over for CEO Jamie Dimon when he retires. If you're not yet a subscriber, you can sign up here to get your daily dose of the stories dominating banking, business, and big deals. Like the newsletter? Hate the newsletter? Feel free to drop me a line at ddefrancesco@businessinsider.com or on Twitter @DanDeFrancesco.  Dealmaker dinners are back, and interns are ready to hit up the bars. Wall Street's appetite is returning and New York City restaurants are gearing up for a rush. As New York's bankers return to the office after a year away, restaurants and bars are once again seeing upticks in customers.  Read up on Wall Street's latest signs of life. Security firms for the ultra-rich are staffing up with vaccinated bodyguards and brushing up on clients' laundry list of demands as the wealthy fuel up their jets and superyachts Security firms for the ultra rich had to pivot when travel halted last year. They are now getting ready for the return of luxury vacations. Security execs discussed how they're prepping for a travel surge. Andy Saperstein, who made Morgan Stanley's wealth unit a cornerstone of the bank, is in the running to replace James Gorman. Here's the memo with all the details. Morgan Stanley unveiled sweeping leadership changes on Thursday, in which wealth head and longtime executive Andy Saperstein will become co-president with Ted Pick. More on the bank's massive leadership shuffle.  JPMorgan is trying to disrupt healthcare again just 3 months after its previous attempt went up in smoke The bank is launching Morgan Health, an internal business unit for healthcare solutions — and its second attempt at changing the healthcare landscape as a self-insured employer. Get the full rundown. Apollo announces that cofounder Josh Harris is stepping down, 2 months after former CEO Leon Black quit Harris will step down once Apollo merges with its insurance affiliate Athene, which is expected to take place in 2022. More details on his departure here. The battle to be JPMorgan's next CEO is heating up. Here are 5 people in the running to succeed Jamie Dimon. Meet the five executives across JPMorgan who could be next in line to step in Dimon's shoes when he retires. Check out the full list here. Wells Fargo just poached a Merrill MD to help manage clients across its CIB as the bank looks to leverage relationships across segments John Bell, formerly a market executive for venture services at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, will now manage client relationships at Wells Fargo. Read more about his new role.  Wells Fargo's investment institute is in the final stages of onboarding an active crypto strategy for its wealthy clients. Its president told us why the firm changed its mind on crypto — and shared the key merits and risks of the 'investable asset.' Darrell Cronk explains the bank's shifting perception of crypto, saying that the cryptocurrency space has hit an evolution. Read his full explanation here. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett got 211 billionaires to pledge half their wealth to charity. Now some are falling short — and still getting massive tax breaks. Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett started the Giving Pledge to encourage more charitable giving by America's richest families, and billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg signed on — but some haven't yet fulfilled their promise. Get the scoop in our exclusive report. 'I was screaming': Top CEOs reflect on the shocking death of George Floyd one year ago and how it changed their perception of being a business leader CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Chipotle, and SurveyMonkey all agree their roles have changed in the wake of George Floyd's murder. In exclusive interviews, the execs told us how his death — and the reckoning that followed — transformed their roles. Here's what they said. Wells Fargo marketing head is exiting amid a wider restructuring of its marketing function and the scrapping of the CMO role Michael Lacorazza, top marketer at Wells Fargo, is heading for the exits. Here is what we know. 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