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Citigroup says it’s prepared to restart its public-finance business in Texas after halting the operations in the wake of a new Republican law in the state that sought to bar it and other banks from such work as punishment for restrictive gun policies.

The Illinois company plans to combine Guaranty Federal Bancshares in Springfield with another bank it bought in the region.

Meghan Hinds, a 15-year veteran at the San Francisco bank, leads a group that’s been reorganized following several key departures last spring.

The Portland, Oregon, company has tapped former Bank of the West executive Kevin Gillette to lead its expansion in Arizona.

The Pennsylvania community bank lacked the resources to go all-in on developing a diversity, equity and inclusion policy, so it turned to grad students at Georgetown University for help.

Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard was interviewed for the top job at the U.S. central bank when she visited the White House last week, according to people familiar with the discussions. She and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are the only people who have publicly surfaced as being in the running for the post.

Kevin Jones, the longtime leader of MidFlorida Credit Union — one of the largest credit unions in Florida — will retire March 1. He will be succeeded by S. Steve Moseley, who was MidFlorida’s president for the past four years.

The company, whose software is used by four of the top five U.S. banks, says it will use the money to improve its identity verification and fraud detection technology.

The partnership with the e-commerce giant could help PayPal overcome muted fourth-quarter sales due to supply-chain issues and other factors changing consumer spending.

The smallest of the Best Banks to Work For have figured out how to thrive in an environment where many employees are working fully or partly from home. Some are using flexibility as a tool to stave off burnout.