How mid-size institutions are making a difference for employees and keeping workers engaged during the pandemic.

The company has been experimenting with ways to recruit more women and minorities, including a program to hire professionals who had left banking. But CEO Charlie Scharf’s reference to “a very limited pool of Black talent” for important jobs may make it harder for Wells to meet inclusion goals.

The fund will support Community Development Financial Institutions that lend to minority- and women-owned businesses. The Charlotte, N.C., company is the latest big bank to make a large dollar commitment focused on alleviating racial and economic inequality.

Under fire for saying that the potential pool of talent is "limited," CEO Charlie Scharf issued a memo to employees Wednesday acknowledging that his words reflected his own "unconscious bias" and vowing to improve diversity in the bank's leadership.

Citigroup will spend $1 billion over the next three years on efforts to help close the racial wealth gap as it seeks to become an “antiracist institution.”

With staff scattered between working at home and in the office, management at many institutions has taken steps to revamp intranets and launch employee-only Facebook groups to keep their workforce connected.

Wells Fargo's top executive created a firestorm on social media over comments that the bank has had trouble meeting its diversity goals because there isn't enough minority talent.

More than a dozen institutions made the ranking this year in this asset category range.

Sergio Ermotti joined JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon in expressing concern about the long-term consequences of remote work.

The credit union turned to a new engagement strategy for employees after the pandemic forced most of the organization to transition to working from home.

These seven institutions have found innovative ways to engage employees and help staffers through the pandemic.

Karl Yoneshige has been with the Honolulu-based institution since 1988, including two decades as CEO.

The pandemic has forced the institutions on this year's Best Credit Unions to Work For list to be more flexible with their policies for how and when employees take time off.

The annual ranking, a collaboration between Credit Union Journal and the Best Companies Group, involves surveying employees and reviewing each institution's workplace policies.

The coronavirus has created unprecedented challenges for employers but these credit unions rose to the occasion.

The future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Fed’s supervisory regime for the biggest financial institutions, reform of the Community Reinvestment Act and a host of other industry-related issues are on the ballot this November.

The Baltimore institution said it would close on Nov. 3 with the intention that employees use the paid time off to participate in the democratic process.

In the face of the current pandemic, what was a growing trend became a necessity for many businesses as shelter-in-place orders changed how they operate day to day, says OnPay's Katelyn Sullivan.

Jason Gelinas, an employee at Citigroup, has been placed on paid leave pending an internal investigation after he was identified as the operator of the most prominent website dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to three people familiar with the matter.