Risk management

The two megabanks said that their capital requirements will rise in the wake of Federal Reserve stress tests, putting downward pressure on their distributions to shareholders. Meanwhile, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and others announced plans to raise their dividends.

A new and larger finance industry is emerging — one in which traditional institutions aren’t nearly as dominant as they used to be.

Missed payments are rising among nonprime credits as higher prices on other goods leave consumers with less money to pay back their car and truck loans. The uptick may be a sign that the stellar credit environment for lenders is starting to turn.

Bank of Montreal hired Piyush Agrawal from Citigroup as chief risk officer to succeed Patrick Cronin, who’s stepping down later this year.

Citigroup may record losses of at least $50 million following a London staffer’s fat-finger trade that caused a flash crash in European stocks last month, according to people familiar with the matter.

People shouldn’t completely shun the crypto world after the recent collapse of a popular stablecoin, an official at the International Monetary Fund said Monday. 

Tom Anderson currently serves in a compliance role overseeing personal banking and wealth management at Citi. He will succeed Mary McNiff, who is moving into a new position at the $2.4 trillion-asset bank.

Citigroup warned that more regulators are investigating the company over employee use of “unapproved messaging channels."

Nearly three in four banks said in a recent survey that finding people with the right skills is a hurdle as they try to comply with decade-old rules regarding their financial models.

A cannabis-related company said it has secured a $60 million credit facility backed partly by East West Bank. The California-based regional bank is moving into a realm once dominated by small banks, credit unions and more expensive nonbank lenders.