Corporate governance

The Nashville bank has recruited a veteran commercial lender in Asheville who had worked with First Horizon, and it has hired four more bankers in Chattanooga.

It took 100 years, but St. Landry Homestead Federal Savings Bank decided on a drastic name change — to Catalyst Bank — to end confusion with a local rival and signal its loftier aspirations.

The Tokyo-based company has named Masatoshi Komoriya executive chairman of the board of directors for MUFG Americas Holdings Corp. and its U.S. banking subsidiary. He begins his new role on June 30 while retaining existing executive duties.

Juliette Kayyem, a veteran crisis manager, explores practical steps leaders can take to be ready for the next disaster in “The Devil Never Sleeps.”

When Goldman Sachs executives set out to woo investors in early 2020, they offered a promising outlook for their novelty Main Street business. The unit would go from a money-suck to break-even in 2022. It isn’t quite working out that way. 

The two megabanks said that their capital requirements will rise in the wake of Federal Reserve stress tests, putting downward pressure on their distributions to shareholders. Meanwhile, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and others announced plans to raise their dividends.

A new and larger finance industry is emerging — one in which traditional institutions aren’t nearly as dominant as they used to be.

Pushes for transparency on charitable donations and ghost guns, among others, were voted down.

Goldman Sachs Group plans to anchor a new office tower in Dallas that would hold thousands of employees, part of the bank’s expansion beyond its Manhattan base.

Court-appointed custodian Alfred Putnam is seeking an extension of nearly three weeks to give more groups time to nominate candidates for a vacant board seat at the Philadelphia bank and solicit proxies from investors before a special meeting.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce expects its U.S. commercial banking and wealth management business to provide the fastest sales growth over the next three years.

VersaBank, which recently announced a deal for a tiny Minnesota bank, says volatility will increase demand for its loans. “Traditionally, we’ve grown rapidly when our point-of-sale financing partners have trouble raising financing,” said CEO David Taylor.

The Dallas bank is joining the branch-consolidation trend that has accelerated during the pandemic, announcing plans to shutter 22 branches in Michigan, Texas and California.

The North Carolina bank’s wealth arm now operates in nine of the 10 largest U.S. markets.

John Madigan, a Citigroup veteran, is leading one of five new private-client banking groups at Signature Bank. The moves are designed to enable the company to expand its footprint throughout metro New York.

The Pittsburgh company is adjusting the structure of a unit that has a national reach following the acquisition of most of BBVA’s U.S. operations. PNC has also named Jennifer Lee as the private bank’s head of U.S. markets.

Credit Suisse Group Chief Executive Thomas Gottstein batted away questions on whether the bank is a takeover target and said he’s still holding out hope for a profitable second quarter.

PayPal Holdings will let users transfer certain cryptocurrencies to other customers, exchanges and external wallets, a new service that’s part of the company’s effort to boost use of its app.

Citigroup plans to hire more than 4,000 tech staff to help move its institutional clients online in the wake of the pandemic.

Citigroup may record losses of at least $50 million following a London staffer’s fat-finger trade that caused a flash crash in European stocks last month, according to people familiar with the matter.