The Dallas bank appointed Sonya Trac to lead business development in communities that have been hit hard by both the pandemic-induced recession and a recent wave of discrimination. It is also depositing $2.5 million at a Los Angeles bank that serves Asian Americans.

Daylight, a digital banking platform for the LGBT community, uses its customers’ preferred names on debit cards rather than their legal names. Through a new social media campaign, the company is encouraging the American Bankers Association and its members to do the same.

Minority-led community development entities often lose out in getting NMTC support. They know best which investments will have the greatest impact on communities of color.

Zoom meetings may never go away, but in the fiercely competitive world of high finance, visits to faraway clients are starting to stage a rapid comeback.

Many big companies have made pledges to diversify their workforces, treat minority communities more fairly and clean up the environment to burnish their images, says Meredith Benton, CEO of the consultancy Whistle Stop Capital. But few are willing to share data to prove it's all more than a PR campaign, she says.

Banks' family leave policies need to evolve with a new workforce that increasingly views fathers as equal caregivers.

Some banks offer it, but the availability and amount of paid time off for employees to bond with a newborn, recover from a serious illness or care for a sick family member shouldn't be up to employers. It should be the law.

Bank bosses are hoping to leave remote work in the past. There’s just one problem: Many employees want to maintain flexibility after proving they can stay productive from home, Accenture executives say.

Titans of finance, already threatened by President Biden’s push for the biggest tax hike on wealthy Americans in decades, face another peril: Progressives are demanding action on a long-stalled requirement that Washington clamp down on Wall Street bonuses.

Profits slumped last year and many investors are now voicing their displeasure with the compensation awarded to senior leaders. A nonbinding “say on pay” vote taken Tuesday passed narrowly, but Chairman Charles Noski indicated that the board will take the results into account when designing future pay packages.

Citigroup said a full review conducted after the lender mistakenly sent $900 million to a group of investment firms concluded the bank didn’t need to claw back any pay from executives.

The lender’s top decision-making body, led by CEO Jamie Dimon, said in a memo to staff Tuesday that it “would fully expect that by early July, all U.S.-based employees will be in the office on a consistent rotational schedule.”

Eighteen months after launching Second Chance in Chicago, JPMorgan is bringing the recruitment effort to Columbus, Ohio.

The lender will expand certain mortgage products, like its HomeRun program, which requires lower down payments and removes mortgage-insurance requirements for lower-income borrowers.

Queensborough National Bank and Trust in Georgia is one of several banks aiming to recruit tech-savvy interns through a network of universities and fintech companies.

“You all will not let me breathe” is just one example in the CFPB’s complaint database where a consumer likened alleged mistreatment by a financial institution to social injustice. An artificial intelligence firm uses technology to help companies flag such language.

Year to date through Dec. 31, 2020. Dollars in thousands.

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A report to Congress from the National Credit Union Administration says the regulator has made "steady strides" toward greater diversity in its workforce and operations, but that progress is "just the beginning."

Investment banker Robert Jackey has left Citigroup to join SVB Financial Group, according to people familiar with the matter, as the parent of Silicon Valley Bank bulks up its health care advisory unit.