Corporate governance

Regions and PNC are two banks that have expanded the use of their mobile branches in recent years.

Carlyle Group plans to raise at least $8.5 billion for a new private credit fund, as it competes with rivals to snap up lending business abandoned by banks.

C.S. Venkatakrishnan, the chief executive of Barclays, has a form of lymphoma and will undergo treatment for several months.

Friendly Hills Bancorp will soon be called First Pacific — a name its CEO has coveted for years. First Missouri recently rebranded as Verimore, a name it made up by combining words from Latin and English. In both cases, the changes reflect the banks' expansion into new markets.

Fidelity National Information Services plans to dismiss thousands of workers as part of incoming Chief Executive Stephanie Ferris's strategy to win back investor confidence after the fintech giant slumped 44% this year.

Deutsche Bank is weighing cuts to its leveraged finance unit as part of a review by CEO Christian Sewing into underperforming businesses as his three-year restructuring concludes.

Walmart health care executive Cheryl Pegus will join JPMorgan Chase's Morgan Health venture as a managing director, with aims to improve employer-sponsored health care.

Even though there has been some progress over the last eight years, men continue to hold many more board seats and jobs on executive teams than women, according to a recent report from DBRS Morningstar.

Burke & Herbert Financial Services in Alexandria, Virginia, plans to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock market — not to raise funds, but to boost its profile with investors.

Banks that offer a wide array of products and services are confronting extraordinary challenges. They aren't doomed, however.