About 30% of Mike Byrne's clients are not profitable, as he specializes in serving families with special-needs children. Those families are frequently overwhelmed and rarely wealthy.

From his offices in Milwaukee, the head of Baird Inc.'s Intermediate Municipal Bond Fund has watched at close range as investors and financial advisers alike have scurried to make sense out of their holdings.

Raymond James Financial has completed its acquisition of Howe Barnes Hoefer & Arnett Inc.

Revised legislation would exclude credit unions from Community Reinvestment Act requirements, but could make the National Credit Union Administration the de facto enforcer of how CUs meet the needs of underserved markets.

The Senate Banking Committee will hold two hearings at the end of March on Chairman Mike Crapo’s most recent framework for housing finance reform.

Gateway Mortgage Group says its launch of a digital-only bank is scheduled for this summer.

Agencies supervising lenders should make it clear that the transition to less discriminatory algorithms won’t be used to punish banks for their previous use of older, less effective systems.

Bank and financial services supervisors have an affirmative duty to address the deep economic divide facing minorities in the U.S.

The growth opportunity is there, the brand trust is there, the clients are there — it’s the banks that are largely absent.