Diversity and equality

Digital Banker of the Year finalist Alice Milligan is creating apps meant to help Americans achieve their life dreams. Goldman Sachs’ global head of human capital management Sally Boyle says the firm is focusing diversity efforts on promoting women in revenue-generating divisions.

The digital banker of the year is B of A’s Michelle Moore. TIAA's Kathie Andrade compares career advancement to a rock climb. Plus, Marianne Lake, Ellen Alemany and Wonder Woman.

Teresa Tanner designed a unique program to help keep new moms from leaving Fifth Third. Monica Coles of Wells Fargo has a surprising perspective on diversity initiatives. Plus, Abby Johnson talks up bitcoin.

Suni Harford is off to UBS, and Shaza Andersen is selling the bank she founded. Also, you should hear how venture capitalists talk about female entrepreneurs.

Janet Yellen says our economic growth depends on closing the gender wage gap. Fidelity talks about fostering innovation and Wells Fargo improves its mobile app. Plus, a soccer story.

A range of backgrounds provides different perspectives on problems, according to executives at the Most Influential Women in Payments panel at SourceMedia's Card Forum.

Wells Fargo’s chief marketing officer Jamie Moldafsky shared how social media is helping the bank recover from its account-opening crisis; Maria Vullo explains her tough stance on bank crime, despite maintaining a lower profile than her predecessor.

JPMorgan Chase’s Colleen Briggs and Fiona Greig are among those working on ways to help a growing segment of consumers with wildly fluctuating incomes. Plus, the women of Wells Fargo’s board and a big promotion at Citi.

Carol Hayles’ departure from CIT leaves us with one less female CEO-CFO team in banking; even Supreme Court justices get manterrupted; a Google doodle celebrates a microlender; and Sen. Elizabeth Warren strikes a pose.

A profile of Dawn Fitzpatrick following her big move from UBS to Soros; a weakness to watch out for in loans made by men to men; and the preponderance of female credit union CEOs.

Yman Vien says she lost her job at American Metro Bancorp because of her gender. The bank says the move was tied to poor decisions that led to a regulatory order in 2009.

A recent study concluded that financial advisers accused of misconduct are fired far more often when female, even though missteps cost less on average than those of male counterparts. Researcher Mark Egan explains the double standard.

Reader reactions to criticism of Jamie Dimon, the House GOP ganging up on Richard Cordray, a bank's decision to part with Excel to measure credit losses, and more.

Though statistically women have trouble getting small business loans, Square's granting more than half its loans to women; latest numbers show only one in four bank senior execs are female.

Get Bank of Montreal's best tips for real results on gender diversity, then try not to get disheartened by other big banks. Plus: Amy Brady, Mary Navarro and Donna Demaio.

Readers sound off on airing political opinions at the office; putting banks and fintechs under the same regulatory umbrella; putting consumer needs first regardless of tech advancements; and more.

The more vocal millennial generation is pushing companies like Bank of America to redefine diversity in the workplace to include more freedom of expression.

More than half of all credit union CEOs – and 70 percent of total employees – are women, but those numbers are misleading, since the majority of female CEO slots are only at smaller institutions. So what will it take for that to change?

BMO recently won a diversity award for reaching its goal of having women in 40% of senior management jobs, and CEO Bill Downe argues equal treatment of employees will carry over to fair treatment of customers and create long-term profits for shareholders.

B of A's Cathy Bessant and Michelle Moore have a few suggestions for women who want to advance and RBC's Janice Fukakusa sets a new pay benchmark for female executives. Plus, Bank of the West's Nandita Bakhshi and Citi's Yolande Piazza.