Retail & Commercial

Bank of America is moving three months early on its most recent plan to raise its hourly base pay. “Until the labor market eases, the weight of wage growth is going to be strong,” CEO Brian Moynihan said during a CNBC interview.

First Northern Community Bancorp Chief Executive Louise Walker said she will hand over the bank’s reins to its chief operating officer at the end of 2022.

The Swedish buy now/pay later company Klarna Bank saw its borrowing costs rise to their highest level on record as rising rates hit the company’s debt and equity valuation. 

The state of Connecticut recently handed the small-dollar marketplace loan provider a cease-and-desist order, but Rodney Williams says his company is getting much-needed emergency funds into marginalized communities at a low total cost, and that the rules need to be rewritten.

Banks need to come together to create interoperable tokenized deposits, as part of an effort to bridge the gap between traditional finance and blockchain.

Sustainable finance activists argue in a new report that big companies are underreporting their emissions because they aren’t accounting for what banks do with their deposits. The findings add to a debate over how to measure firms’ contributions to climate change.

Strong spending trends, combined with a reduction in card repayment rates, contributed to 17% loan growth last month. The data suggests that rising fears of a recession aren’t yet changing consumers’ behavior.

Nearly half of all small-business owners — and higher percentages of minority entrepreneurs — said in a new survey that they aren’t sure they could come up with the funds to cover an emergency $5,000 business expense. But the results also suggest that the Paycheck Protection Program may have led to more trust in the Small Business Administration.

Agility Bank, formed to serve local businesses operated by women, plans to launch in late May.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects farm profits to drop by 8% this year due to multiple factors, creating credit quality questions for ag banks.