The biggest U.S. banks are continuing to add to their workforces even as executives from Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley talk of scaling back amid a slump in dealmaking and capital markets.

A former Deutsche Bank managing director said she was put up for redundancy purely because of her age and gender, just as executives in London feared the COVID pandemic would hit lending to the bank's wealthy clients.

An ex-Goldman Sachs Group banker sued the investment bank for around £20.3 million ($22.9 million) to make up for his losing his job after he made whistleblowing allegations about regulatory failures.

Robinhood Markets is poised to succeed in pushing a female former engineer's claims about a "toxic culture of gender bias" at the company out of open court and into private arbitration.

Dennis Halpin will conclude his 18-year tenure with the credit union in January.

At American Banker's Small Biz Banking conference, bankers said they are throwing community events, working with local nonprofits and trying to turn lending decisions from "no" to "yes."