Corporate governance

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.

After several years when the scandal-plagued bank was focused on cost cutting, CEO Charlie Scharf indicated Tuesday that the company has opportunities to expand revenue across every line of business.

CEO Bill Rogers affirmed the North Carolina bank's commitment to an expansion of Truist Insurance Holdings. But he declined to comment on a recent report that the company was exploring the potential sale of up to 30% of the business.

JPMorgan Chase is planning to increase headcount in its Latin American private-banking unit by about 25% next year as the firm looks to attract more clients with $5 million to $25 million to invest at the bank.

The Texas company has set up commercial banking offices in Charleston and Greenville, and it has established a private banking office in Atlanta. Its long-term goal is to build a branch network in some key Southeastern markets.

Roughly 40,000 residents of Moore County have been left without power since Saturday, when gunfire damaged two substations. Financial institutions are urging residents to use online banking and call centers if they do not have access to a branch.

As climate transition evolves in the coming years, banks will be in position to finance a wider range of decarbonization efforts than they have in the recent past, according to a new report from McKinsey.

JPMorgan Chase will store gold held by the world's biggest exchange-traded fund in its vaults, a major coup for the bank's bullion business.

InBankshares has hired a former PacWest senior executive — its third leader to come from a regional bank — in a move aimed at bringing in the skills necessary to run a much larger institution.

UBS Group Chairman Colm Kelleher said the bank will focus on the very richest US clients, backtracking from a plan to serve a broader segment of affluent customers after it abandoned a deal to buy the robo advisor Wealthfront.

Central Pacific Bank, which has branches on the Big Island, is tracking the eruption of Mauna Loa in an effort to limit the risk of service interruptions. So far, the impacts appear to be limited.

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.