Corporate governance

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.

JPMorgan Chase's asset-management arm entered into a deal to acquire more than $1 billion of single-family rentals, a sign that choppy markets haven't scared investors away from suburban housing.

JPMorgan Chase is on the hunt for buyouts to lend to and is hoping to gain market share in leveraged financing after avoiding the dozens of clunkers that have cost competitors billions of dollars.

Klarna has rolled out a search and compare tool in the U.K. and Nordics as the fintech looks to diversify its revenue away from buy now/pay later, which is under increasing scrutiny.