The number of women CEOs at top-50 banks will soon fall to one with the departure of Kelly Coffey from the top job at City National Bank. The recent trend line shines a light on the industry's shallow bench of women in C-suite roles.

While bipartisan concerns have been raised about workplace abuse at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., experts say Chair Martin Gruenberg is unlikely to bow to calls for his resignation in part to protect the agency's regulatory agenda. But that could change if those calls become more stringent and bipartisan.

Dream Chasers upped its bid for Carver, one of the nation's largest and highest-profile Black banks, by a quarter, to $3.25 per share, dismissing the growth strategy interim CEO Craig MacKay outlined in a recent shareholder letter.

Bankers and others now will get until Jan. 16 to weigh in on a proposal that would require more large banks to hold long-term debt. Regulators say they wanted to give the public more time to thoroughly assess its implications.

Even if the 30-year fixed were to slip further to 6.4%, it is not enough to end the seller's strike, economists said.

The instant-payments environment is encouraging more consumers to participate in rewards through checking accounts, earning them a cash-back bonus or a discount that gets funded faster than interchange-based rewards.