Thanks for the submissions, I REALLY like both your color AND font choices. However, I think that the curvatures suggest a flexibility that we don't want to convey (seeing as we're a financial services business), I'd prefer some stronger lines.
Anyhow, I'll share with you the fact that I'm really liking the direction of submission entry number 5, (currently ranked 3rd) and sent an e-mail to its creator to encourage a few more variations of his logo direction.
The more I look at entry 5, the more I like it, it's a good idea to treat the "M" like that, and I thought you might want to know that and perhaps make some variations of it, or something different that leverages more of a symbol than an actual letter...
If you do, please remove color from the background (make plain white), maybe do some resizing of the "M"-type symbol, try some different colors (probably can go with some lighter colors than that entry if you have a plain white background, I actually like the colors in your two submissions.
We need to select a winner for this asap and close this contest asap, so we'd appreciate any additional submissions within a day.