Financial institutions

Fitch Ratings issued a negative warning for global banks after federal regulators proposed some relief from resolution plan requirements.

Tandem Bank has approval from the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance as its aims to become the state's first new bank since the financial crisis.

Concerns about job losses and political blowback still loom, but the two banks made it through a second day of public hearings hosted by the Fed relatively unscathed and with significant local support.

Synovus converted all 26 of its separately branded community banks to its own name over the past two years — a major undertaking that allowed Jennifer Upshaw, senior director of marketing, to shine.

Over the past two years, Uma Wilson's strategy took a program that had been losing customers on a year-over-year basis and transformed it into the fastest-growing issuer of Visa cards in the region.

As chief operational risk officer, Carrie Lichter played a key role in bringing to life Fifth Third's high-tech war room, also known as the cyber fusion center.

Big banks and other financial firms spend as much as $3,000 per employee to defend computer networks from cybercriminals, a survey found, as the industry remains the primary target of such attacks.

April Frazer describes herself, forthrightly, as a very driven person. Which may explain how she became global head of banks at Wells Fargo before her 37th birthday.

A rapidly changing workforce and the proliferation of public and shareholder activists have fundamentally reshaped the job of running a bank.

Rachel Bryant specializes in risk management, and she applies that framework not only to her job duties, but also to her career path.