Morgan Stanley's 14 years under James Gorman: a timeline

By Manya Saini

(Reuters) -Morgan Stanley on Wednesday named insider Ted Pick as its next chief executive officer, replacing longtime leader James Gorman, who will become the investment bank's executive chairman.

Here is a timeline of key events that shaped Gorman's almost 14-year tenure atop the Wall Street giant:

DATE DEVELOPMENT

February 2006 James Gorman joins Morgan Stanley

December 2007 Morgan Stanley names Gorman co-president

January 2010 Gorman replaces John Mack as Morgan

Stanley's CEO

June 2012 Gorman announces Smith Barney will be

renamed Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

June 2013 Morgan Stanley completes buyout of Smith

Barney joint venture from Citigroup

June 2016 Morgan Stanley agrees to pay a $1

million fine to settle U.S. Securities

and Exchange Commission civil charges

September 2017 The Financial Industry Regulatory

Authority says Morgan Stanley to pay $13

million in fines and restitution to

clients for inadequately supervising

certain short-term trades

February 2019 Morgan Stanley says it will buy Canadian

employee stock plans manager Solium

Capital for C$1.1 billion

December 2019 France's markets watchdog AMF says it

fined Morgan Stanley 20 million euros

($22 million) for manipulation of

sovereign bonds.

February 2020 Morgan Stanley says it will buy discount

brokerage E*Trade Financial Corp in an

all-stock deal worth about $13 billion

October 2020 Morgan Stanley agrees to buy Eaton Vance

Corp for about $7 billion in a

cash-and-stock deal

April 2021 Media reports citing sources says Morgan

Stanley sold about $5 billion of

Archegos’ stocks the night before the

fire sale hit rivals

April 2021 Morgan Stanley reveals it lost more than

$900 million from the collapse of family

office Archegos Capital Management,

curbing a 150% jump in quarterly profit

February 2022 Morgan Stanley discloses U.S. regulators

and prosecutors were probing various

aspects of the investment bank's block

trading business

February 2022 Media report says Morgan Stanley's role

in the collapse of Archegos deepened a

probe by U.S. authorities into block

trading practices

August 2022 Morgan Stanley agrees to pay $200

million to U.S. regulators to resolve

probes into its record-keeping practices

September 2022 A Morgan Stanley unit agrees to pay U.S.

regulators $35 million to settle charges

it failed to safeguard customer data

December 2022 Morgan Stanley plans modest global job

cuts, Gorman says at the Reuters NEXT

conference, without specifying numbers

December 2022 Morgan Stanley cuts about 2% of its

workforce, a source familiar with the

layoffs tells Reuters

January 2023 Morgan Stanley reiterates its long-term

target of managing $10 trillion in

assets

January 2023 Morgan Stanley reveals Gorman's total

compensation for 2022 slipped 10% to

$31.5 million

March 2023 U.S. judge dismisses seven lawsuits by

investors who accused Morgan Stanley and

Goldman Sachs of insider trading and

market manipulation linked to Archegos

March 2023 Morgan Stanley joins major U.S. banks in

injecting a combined $30 billion in

deposits into First Republic Bank

May 2023 Morgan Stanley plans to eliminate about

3,000 jobs in the second quarter,

Reuters reports citing a source

May 2023 Gorman says he plans to step down as CEO

within a year and stay on as executive

chairman for an unspecified period

June 2023 Reuters first reports that the bank's

board will focus on the selection of CEO

James Gorman's successor at its summer

and fall meetings

August 2023 Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan

Stanley and UBS reach a $499 million

settlement of an antitrust lawsuit by

investors who accused them of conspiring

to stifle competition in stock lending

October 2023 Ted Pick appointed CEO from

Jan. 1, 2024

Sources: Company statements, investor updates, investor conferences, media reports, regulatory filings

(Reporting by Manya Saini in Bengaluru; Editing by Rod Nickel and Sonali Paul)