The financial industry was the third-biggest contributor to Clinton's Senate career and 2008 presidential run (behind lawyers and retirees). | AP Photo Clinton and Bush still tops with Wall Street, lawyers

Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush continued to win with bankers, even as their fundraising slowed down last quarter.

Bush collected more than $922,000 from people who said they work in finance, about even with his take from the industry in the previous quarter, and amounting to 7 percent of his total haul. Clinton trailed with some $682,000 from self-identified bankers and investors, well below the $2 million she drew from the financial industry in the second quarter, but tracking an overall decline in her take.


Wall Street remains a crucial money base for both candidates even as they try to avoid appearing too cozy with the institutions that many voters blame for crashing the economy. Marco Rubio is also making a play for finance dollars, but last quarter netted only $201,754. Ted Cruz got $255,676 from bankers and investors.

These direct campaign contributions are dwarfed by the unlimited giving now allowed to super PACs, but those proceeds won't be revealed until the next round of disclosures in January. Even so, the early burnouts of Scott Walker's and Rick Perry's bids despite super PAC war chests has underscored the need to secure campaign coffers.

The financial industry was the third-biggest contributor to Clinton's Senate career and 2008 presidential run (behind lawyers and retirees).

Laura Blankfein, the wife of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, gave Clinton $2,700, the maximum, last quarter, as did Daniel Och, chairman and CEO of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, and George Soros. Byron Wien of Blackstone, Scott Nuttall of KKR, and Todd Boehly of Guggenheim Partners gave to Bush.

Bankers weren't the biggest demographic, though, for Clinton or Bush. Both got more money from lawyers last quarter than any other profession: $3.1 million and about $845,000, respectively.

Both campaigns also voluntarily released the names of all their bundlers not just the lobbyists, as required by law. Clinton's bundlers, those who helped raise more than $100,000, included Tom Nides, who worked in her State Department and is now at Morgan Stanley; Lisa Caputo, an executive vice president at Citigroup who was Clinton's press secretary when she was first lady; and Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

Among Bush's bundlers, those who raised more than $17,600 during the quarter, were retired Goldman Sachs partner Audrey A. McNiff; Tom Michaud, president and CEO of investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods; and Tony de Nicola of private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.

Joseph C. Wall, a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs, raised 40,320 for Rubio.