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The Federal Reserve is mulling changes to a key capital measure for big banks, rulings on several merger applications and other actions. How it ultimately decides those matters will depend largely on whom President Biden appoints as head of the central bank and to other leadership positions.

The largest of the 2021 Best Banks to Work For, those with more than $10 billion of assets, are trying new recruiting tactics and ramping up diversity efforts.

Hope Dmuchowski will join the Memphis, Tennessee, bank as it contends with higher-than-expected costs in connection with its acquisition of Iberiabank. She has previous experience with integrations, having participated in the combination of BB&T and SunTrust Banks.

U.S. consumers’ card debt, which fell sharply last year, has now climbed for two consecutive quarters. The upcoming holiday shopping season will signal how quickly borrowing will return to 2019 levels.

Citigroup says it’s prepared to restart its public-finance business in Texas after halting the operations in the wake of a new Republican law in the state that sought to bar it and other banks from such work as punishment for restrictive gun policies.

The Illinois company plans to combine Guaranty Federal Bancshares in Springfield with another bank it bought in the region.

Meghan Hinds, a 15-year veteran at the San Francisco bank, leads a group that’s been reorganized following several key departures last spring.

The Portland, Oregon, company has tapped former Bank of the West executive Kevin Gillette to lead its expansion in Arizona.

The Pennsylvania community bank lacked the resources to go all-in on developing a diversity, equity and inclusion policy, so it turned to grad students at Georgetown University for help.