Monetary policy has a more significant impact on spending of U.S. households headed by white women than on those led by white men or Black men and women, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco said.

It is essential to place the central focus on race, to bring nondepository mortgage lenders under the Community Reinvestment Act umbrella and to address bias in home appraisals.

Three Black-owned U.S. banks have bought a piece of a $1.23 billion syndicated corporate loan, a rare move in a market typically dominated by bigger Wall Street and regional lenders.  

European banks are starting to count the cost of their employees’ messaging habits, which have caught the attention of U.S. regulators in a sweeping global investigation.

Visa said it will hand out annual raises for more-junior employees earlier as it seeks to help staffers battling once-in-a-generation levels of inflation.

First introduced in 2020, the Fair Access to Financial Services Act would require banks to serve all customers in a manner similar to existing requirements for hotels and restaurants under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

UBS signaled that it’s part of a broad probe by U.S. regulators into messaging by bank employees that’s likely to saddle lenders with fines of about $1 billion.

Credit Suisse Group, the Swiss bank that lost dozens of key dealmakers last year, is once again offering lucrative retention payments to prevent senior talent from leaving. 

HSBC Holdings' U.K. unit is planning to stop collecting data on the gender of its customers across some products as the bank pursues more inclusive services for nonbinary and trans people.

Bank of America is keeping to its original hiring plans despite challenging economic conditions that have prompted others to pull back, Chief Executive Brian Moynihan said.