Amanda Deckelman

Amanda Deckelman is currently a Managing Director in FICC Short Rates Sales, based in Chicago. In this role, she is responsible for a team of salespeople managing cash reinvestment, financing, and leverage needs for the bank’s fixed income clients. The team’s client base spans hedge funds, pensions, banks, money funds, municipalities, corporations, and asset managers across the globe. She also has supervisory responsibilities for the Chicago regional office. Amanda joined the bank in 2007 as an intern in Merrill Lynch’s summer program and started as a trader on the Repo desk full time in 2008. In 2012, Amanda relocated to the Chicago office and shifted into a sales role, covering many of the clients she actively engaged while she was market making. Over the course of her 17+ year tenor at Bank of America, Amanda has witnessed front end markets through the financial crisis, quantitative easing, Fed hikes and cuts, pandemic funding stress, and technical adjustments in Fed policy. Amanda graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, Class of 2008. She resides in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and two daughters (ages 7 and 3), and is active in undergraduate recruiting, mentorship, and women’s leadership efforts. She is also a member of the Lurie Childrens Hospital Innovators program which helps direct funding towards high focus areas in children’s health, most recently adolescent mental health. Amanda was recipient of 2024’s American Banker NEXT Award, Most Powerful Women in Banking.