Financial News this week reported on the Wall Street donors to Paul Ryan, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, but President Obama also has some powerful backers from the ranks of the finance industry.

The following names come from the list of Obama's "bundlers" on the OpenSecrets.org blog run by the Center for Responsive Politics, a research group that analyses fundraising in US politics. The blog defines bundlers as "people with friends in high places who, after bumping against personal contribution limits, turn to those friends, associates, and, well, anyone who's willing to give, and deliver the checks to the candidate in one big 'bundle'". http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/bundlers.php