Young professionals have a reputation in banking for hopping from job to job. So what exactly are they looking for? The same things as older peers: solid benefits and better pay, according to recent surveys.

Financial institutions of all sizes are overhauling benefits policies and promoting work-life balance to better compete for millennial recruits with the hipper tech sector. The big changes include longer periods of paid time off for new parents.

The more vocal millennial generation is pushing companies like Bank of America to redefine diversity in the workplace to include more freedom of expression.

More than half of all credit union CEOs – and 70 percent of total employees – are women, but those numbers are misleading, since the majority of female CEO slots are only at smaller institutions. So what will it take for that to change?

BMO recently won a diversity award for reaching its goal of having women in 40% of senior management jobs, and CEO Bill Downe argues equal treatment of employees will carry over to fair treatment of customers and create long-term profits for shareholders.

New hires, promotions, board elections and more credit union officials in the news.

B of A's Cathy Bessant and Michelle Moore have a few suggestions for women who want to advance and RBC's Janice Fukakusa sets a new pay benchmark for female executives. Plus, Bank of the West's Nandita Bakhshi and Citi's Yolande Piazza.

So-called performance-share units are pushing aside stock options as the preferred long-term incentive pay for bank executives. Many investors and regulators fear that options can encourage reckless conduct and have other shortcomings, though options still have supporters.

CU is rewarding members for activity in savings, loans and active products.

Banks like TD and U.S. Bancorp are suddenly taking public shots from current and former employees critical of their sales practices, a sign that the industry has not put behind it the questions raised months ago by the phony-accounts scandal at Wells.