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Duncan-Williams, Inc. is a privately owned investment banking, securities brokerage, and asset management firm headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee with additional offices throughout the United States.

The firm is noted for being one of the largest woman-owned firms in the finance industry, and its President, Duncan Williams, is a board member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority--the national agency that assists in regulating securities firms and their representatives.

Duncan-Williams provides financial services to various types of clients, including municipalities, private corporations, and individual investors.The company maintains four core financial service businesses: a private investor services group, an equity capital markets group, a debt capital markets group, and a public finance group.

History
Duncan-Williams, Inc. was founded in 1969 by A. Duncan Williams, primarily as a municipal bonds brokerage. After the death of Mr. Williams in 1989, his wife, Carolyn Williams, assumed ownership of the company.

In in subsequent years, under the leadership of Carolyn Williams' son, Duncan F. Williams, the firm continues to expand into a full-service, national investment bank with offices in New York, Chicago, Jersey City, Houston, Charlotte, Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Nashville, Hattiesburg and Jackson, MS.

One of the largest female-owned investment banking firms in the nation, Duncan-Williams was certified as a Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) by The Women's Business Enterprise National Council in 2010.