JPMorgan Chase is on the hunt for buyouts to lend to and is hoping to gain market share in leveraged financing after avoiding the dozens of clunkers that have cost competitors billions of dollars.

Goldman Sachs Group paid out well over $12 million to a veteran executive who complained internally about a toxic workplace for women in the highest echelons of Wall Street's most prestigious firm.

Highly acquisitive banks that pack on assets without sacrificing employee morale pepper American Banker's annual Best Banks to Work For rankings.

The CEO of Seattle-based Washington Federal says Luther Burbank Corp. was an attractive acquisition target because it offers an entree into California and has a commercial lending operation that could follow WaFd's recipe for growth over the past decade.

Klarna has rolled out a search and compare tool in the U.K. and Nordics as the fintech looks to diversify its revenue away from buy now/pay later, which is under increasing scrutiny.

The Seattle bank's all-stock deal for Luther Burbank Corp. is expected to close as soon as the second quarter of 2023.

Women board members affiliated with Wells Fargo, S&P Global and Moelis shared advice for getting onto boards successfully at American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Banking conference.

The crisis sparked by the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto empire ensnared BlockFi, a troubled digital-asset lender once worth $3 billion but which has now limited activity on its platform.

A new debit card for military veterans, Google expands a billing test and more in banking news this week.

Jeff von Gillern, who heads tech and ops at U.S. Bank, will retire in a year. Global CIO Dilip Venkatachari will join the executive committee and Souheil Badran has been hired to run operations.

Sam Bankman-Fried's digital-asset empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, capping a rapid downfall for the 30-year-old entrepreneur and onetime crypto king.

Savanna-Thomson State Bank in Illinois has agreed to buy Fidelity Bank in Iowa and says it expects to complete the acquisition early next year.

Wall Street banks that lent $13 billion to help fund Elon Musk's buyout of Twitter have been quietly sounding out hedge funds and other asset managers for their interest in a chunk of the buyout debt at deeply discounted prices.

Former Goldman Sachs Group banker Asante Berko was arrested on charges that he orchestrated bribes to Ghanaian officials while employed at the investment bank.

CI Financial Corp. outlined a plan to reduce debt and separate its US and Canadian businesses as the fund manager tries to rebuild investor confidence in its growth strategy.

The Justice Department is looking into the turmoil surrounding Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX.com and the liquidity crisis that has pushed the firm to the brink, according to a person familiar with the matter.

U.S. financial regulators proposed several steps to improve the functioning of the Treasuries market after it broke down early in the pandemic.

Town & Country Credit Union named Brad Houle as its new president and CEO. Houle was most recently chief executive of CAHP Credit Union in Sacramento.

The $186 million deal, announced in November 2021, was originally expected to close in the first half of this year. "The environment for M&A is just more challenging," an OceanFirst executive says.

Changpeng "CZ" Zhao walked away from his bailout for Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX.com almost as quickly as he offered a rescue.