Meet the Broker Who Made Merrill Pay for Racial Bias

“I’ll give you as much time as you want,” George McReynolds drawls, leaning back in a chair in his Nashville, Tennessee, office.

That, he says, has been his philosophy during the 30 years he’s worked as a financial adviser at Merrill Lynch & Co., the brokerage now owned by Bank of America Corp. At 69, he’s a slow-and-steady kind of guy: He’s lived in the same home for almost four decades; he never drives his tan Chevrolet Malibu over the speed limit. Still, McReynolds couldn’t wait forever to be treated equally by his employer, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Dec. 2 edition.