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Hector Negroni, a leader in pushing the needle in municipal finance, talks policy, infrastructure, ESG and a growing global audience for investing in state and local governments.

As the pandemic continues to weigh on us all, BlueVine shares how it is putting employees first.

COVID-19 has pushed an increasingly popular, non-traditional POS lending product into the mainstream.

As government debt swells, the outer limits of what the U.S. can safely borrow are becoming less and less clear.

How consumer attitudes toward privacy threaten to overturn long-standing industry assumptions about customer data and personalization.

Citigroup is one of the world's largest lenders to the fossil fuel industry, but CEO Jane Fraser vowed on Monday that the bank would achieve net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions in its financing activities by 2050.

Supermarkets and restaurants were already starting to go digital when the pandemic pushed hard on the gas. Expect more mobile and virtual experiences —and much less space for sit-down dining.

Community banks, which for years have relied heavily on commercial real estate lending, have been tightening underwriting standards, conducting more frequent loan reviews and stepping back from certain subsectors to minimize their credit exposure.

Already contending with stressed retail, hotel and restaurant loans, bankers are beginning to view office lending — historically a safe bet — as increasingly risky as companies of all types rethink their space needs.

Geneviève Piché, who has worked in investment banking at the company for 20 years, will be in charge of helping corporate clients make environmentally and socially responsible investments.

Shared national credit balances rose 5% last year, and the percentage of at-risk loans nearly doubled. Regulators point out that banks have stashed away extra capital, but a lot will depend on the speed of the economic recovery and the performance of nonbank loans.

The CEO of Chase Consumer Banking and a member of JPMorgan’s leadership team, Thasunda Brown Duckett has been tapped to replace Roger Ferguson as CEO of the retirement services provider.

The Fortune 500 conglomerate has had discussions about merging Thrivent Credit Union, which operates independently of the company, into the bank if the charter is approved.

Reimagining LGBTQ+ efforts at UBS for improving diversity in their recruitment process

The company is mulling the sale of certain retail operations the Asia-Pacific region as part of incoming CEO Jane Fraser's plan to streamline operations, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Federal Reserve warned of significant risks of business bankruptcies and steep drops in commercial real estate prices in a report published on Friday.

The automated investing tool is part of Goldman Sachs's effort to be a full-service digital bank and to help partners like Apple and Stripe offer financial products, according to Stephanie Cohen, global co-head of consumer and wealth management.

Paybby, whose founder wanted to address disparities in the financial system after the George Floyd protests, is working with banks and others to develop products especially for underserved communities. They include a debit card that substitutes for food stamps and an app that temporarily sweeps cash into cryptocurrency.

The operating environment is dramatically different than it was pre-pandemic and presents all-new challenges for financial institutions. Tried-and-true strategies that led to high performance for many years are no longer going to be successful. Join Bonnie McGeer, Executive Editor of American Banker, and Claude Hanley, Partner at Capital Performance Group, as they highlight important trends and comb through data from top-performing banks across the country for insights that will help regional and community financial institutions thrive in 2021. Executives will learn what metrics will be most critical to focus on to maintain high performance going forward.

On Sep. 30, 2020. Dollars in thousands.