Paige Litten

Title: Director
Firm: Assured Guaranty (AGO)
Age: 31

Paige Litten, now a director in public finance at Assured Guaranty (AGO), started her banking career as a foreign exchange analyst at Citi. She switched to munis in her second year and hasn't looked back.

"I was interested in the macro side of the market, but also wanted to be in a product that was more credit-specific. That attracted me to munis," she said. "It's a unique area of finance because it's so tangible."

Litten, who majored in mathematical economics at Colgate University, was promoted from analyst to associate in Citi's municipal syndicate in 2017, then to vice president in 2020 and to director in January 2023.

She made the switch from bank to insurer this year, joining Assured Guaranty (AGO) as a director in March, after Citi left the market.

"I love it. I feel like it was good next step for me," Litten said of the move.

"This is a whole different world but within the same industry," she said.

"Paige has a broad range of skills and talents and has proven herself as a leader and high performing professional, and we believe that she will certainly continue to do so," said Chris Chafizadeh, senior managing director at Assured.

At Assured, she said, her goals are the same as they were at Citi. On the syndicate desk she worked with bankers to get new business and execute deals; at Assured she focuses on providing coverage in sectors of public finance that insurers haven't historically been involved in.

"It's about growing the business," she said.