Cathy Bessant, Bank of America, 2019

Cathy Bessant, who was Bank of America's vice chair of global strategy when she retired, is joining Truist's board of directors and will sit on the company's risk committee. Bessant was American Banker's Most Powerful Woman in Banking for three consecutive years.

Walmart inflation

Inflation continued to rise in May, bolstering the case for the Federal Reserve to keep its policy rate unchanged at next week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting. But the range of future monetary policy outcomes is wide, with all eyes on how newly installed Fed Chair Kevin Warsh navigates his new role.

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Jonathan Gould

There's been an onslaught of nonbank financial technology company charter applications and approvals already this year.

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