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Retail investors revolted against institutional investors by buying heavily shorted stocks in January, reanimating regulatory concerns about short selling and market manipulation. But is shorting a check on speculation, or a driver of it?

The San Francisco company has now backed 11 minority-owned banks as part of a $50 million pledge it announced last year.

The California company has not established a time or pricing for the IPO.

On Dec. 31, 2020. Dollars in thousands.

Organizers of the Florida de novo will need to raise $17 million in capital before opening.

For banks that pass this year’s stress tests, the Federal Reserve said it will eliminate the restrictions on dividends and share buybacks while subjecting those institutions instead to the stress capital buffer.

The tennis legend will also serve as a strategic adviser on gender equality issues and First Women's Bank, which will be mostly owned and run by women.

The depositor-owned banks are discouraged from participating in the Emergency Capital Investment Program because they can't issue preferred stock to back loans for underserved communities. It's another reason to overhaul their capital rules, mutuals argue.

The de novo, which raised $33 million in initial capital, will become the state's third new bank since the 2008 financial crisis.

The decision is seen as a setback for the banking industry, which had been pushing for an extension, and a win for Democrats, who have argued that a pandemic is no time for banks to be shedding capital.