Ex-Fannie Mae CEO Raines Prods Wall Street to Do More on Race

This Bloomberg Markets article is part of “The Only One in the Room,” an oral history of the Black experience on Wall Street.

Franklin Raines, 71, served in President Jimmy Carter’s administration before joining Lazard Frères & Co. in 1979, where he became Wall Street’s first Black partner in 1985. He became chief executive officer of the Federal National Mortgage Association in 1999. In 2004 he left Fannie Mae amid accusations of improper accounting. (In a 2012 civil suit ruling, a judge found no evidence of wrongdoing by Raines.) Raines has sat on the boards of several companies, including Pfizer Inc. and Boeing Co.