Corporate governance

A shareholder group that is pushing the nation's largest banks to conduct racial equity audits criticized JPMorgan Chase's effort, while giving a more favorable review of a Citigroup report. Banks small and large launched racial equity initiatives in 2020 in the wake of protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd.

The National Credit Union Administration must justify its sharply higher operating budget for next year.

Financial institutions have launched tailored relief campaigns to help refugees begin rebuilding their lives.

A group of shareholders in the Dubuque, -Iowa-based bank, including a former chairman and CEO, have agreed to quit advocating for a sale of the $19.7 billion-asset company

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is in talks to invest about $200 million in Akulaku, an Indonesian online lender backed by Jack Ma's Ant Group, according to people familiar with the matter.

The payments firm is staffing up as it accelerates its expansion in the U.S., and anticipates a pool of available tech workers.

The acquisition of Malvern Bancorp in Pennsylvania would provide added heft in suburban Philadelphia markets. It is easily First Bank's largest-ever M&A deal.

Micron's planned semiconductor chip factory near Syracuse along with IBM's expansion project in the Hudson Valley could inject as much as $120 billion into markets inside the footprint of the combined NBT Bancorp and Salisbury Bancorp. NBT CEO John Watt calls the economic investments a "transformational opportunity" for the region.

Goldman Sachs Group aims to cut at least a few hundred more jobs as the Wall Street titan restructures its struggling consumer business and braces for an uncertain economy in the year ahead.

Plaid said it cut 260 staffers Wednesday after changing macroeconomic conditions forced it to rein in costs.