Several banks are seeing significant changes in leadership as the year comes to a close.

Men on Wall Street take a cue from Vice President Mike Pence in refusing to dine one-on-one with women; Coinbase adds fertility benefits; and the CFPB has a new leader. Plus, Bank of America's Katy Knox gets promoted.

The changes affected Dean Athanasia, Thong Nguyen, Katy Knox and Andy Sieg. The company also gave more responsibility to Chief Administrative Officer Andrea Smith.

Since banks are under constant attack by hackers, the startup XM Cyber is offering them a simulator that seeks to do its virtual worst in order to prevent a real breach.

While equity prices drop an average 5% at big banks, bosses express confidence in the U.S. economy; the bank appoints new managers in payments, consumer banking and marketing.

Big-bank execs downplayed gloomy economic forecasts and said a commercial lending rally, niche M&A and smart tech spending will drive growth in 2019.

Whatever the central bank decides, it is sure to ruffle a lot of feathers in the industry.

Danish lawmakers say that the probe currently focused on Danske Bank should be expanded to include more firms.

Technology is often cited as the leg up large banks have in winning over customers, but regionals are worried about the “billions and billions” bigger rivals can pour into ubiquitous ad campaigns.

Are midsize banks in position to disrupt, or are they investing billions in technology because they can’t afford not to?