Investments

The Charlotte, North Carolina, bank is one of several that have embedded automated investing in their online and mobile banking, alongside access to human advisors.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is facing a legal challenge from groups that argue rules meant to diversify the boards of banks and other publicly traded companies amount to discrimination.

The financial industry is offering loans for solar energy projects, carbon emission trackers, green mortgages and cash-back incentives to help customers go green.

JPMorgan Chase, which has mostly been absent from the business of underwriting Texas municipal bonds for the past year, plans to revive its work with the state and its local governments soon.

Texas is taking steps that could cost BlackRock, UBS Group and eight other finance firms business with the state after finding them to be hostile to the energy industry.

A growing number of challenger banks and fintechs are trying to help customers live more sustainable lives through carbon calculators with localized data.

A recent mini-tender offer to shareholders in Truist Financial serves as a cautionary tale. "They're trolling around for investors that aren't paying attention," one lawyer said.

JPMorgan Chase led U.S. banks increasing direct loans to states and local governments last quarter as the firms filled a void left by mutual fund investors who fled the traditional municipal bond market amid soaring inflation and surging yields.

The Federal Reserve looks to be paying closer attention to a potential pinch-point that rankled dollar funding markets almost three years ago and could at some stage become a catalyst for ending early officials' plans to shrink the U.S. central bank's expanded balance sheet.

"Animal welfare scores low in priority at many financial institutions" in the U.S., says Merel van der Mark, animal welfare and finance program manager for Sinergia Animal, an organization based in Brazil that has been maintaining a ranking of how banks around the world perform on several measures of ethics with regard to animals.