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A recent court decision could create more crypto-service opportunities for traditional banks.

North American and Chinese banks fared worst in the study, with the Transition Pathway Initiative Global Climate Transition Centre finding that lenders based in Europe and Japan "are far ahead" of others when it comes to taking action on climate change.

Kevin Meyersburg, who is white, says in a lawsuit that the Wall Street investment bank terminated his employment and replaced him with a Black woman who is less qualified for the position. Morgan Stanley declined to comment.

The Attorney General's office found the firm complies with a 2021 state law banning contracts with companies that "discriminate" against the firearm industry.

Most financial firms are failing to see how the natural world impacts their business, but they're about to wise up — quickly. 

Banks are committing financing for a slew of new deals, while investors clamor for syndicated loans as interest rates rise.

Software can help banks move computing workloads to geographic regions where clean energy is available.

The state treasurer's revisions, which shrank the list to six financial firms from 13, includes Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo.

About two-thirds of respondents in a survey of roughly 300 Bloomberg terminal users said the anti-ESG movement that started in the U.S. last year will force firms to stop using those three letters in conversations with clients.

Moody's said higher funding costs, a potential decline in bank capital and growing risk in the commercial real-estate industry prompted many of the downgrades.

Texas State Bankshares has agreed to buy Estrada Hinojosa & Co., one of the nation's biggest municipal underwriting and advisory firms.

While it's still relatively early to tell how much — if at all — the muni market will be impacted, Kara South, portfolio manager at GW&K Investment Management, said downgrades of certain municipal bonds are likely to follow.

The Federal Reserve said that banks reported tighter standards and continued weak demand for loans in the second quarter, extending a trend that began before recent stresses in the banking sector emerged.

More than half of the eight-member Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials by Barclays and Morgan Stanley voted for disclosing just 33% of so-called facilitated emissions, according to a person familiar with the process. Two members of the group voted for 100%.

Large financial institutions have "meaningful but manageable" loan volumes to industries that are most likely to see declines in output and profit after climate-friendly regulations take hold, new research shows.

Concluding the industry faces years of upheaval, BlackRock is poised to become a bigger buyer of assets that banks unload to improve their capital and liquidity.

As ESG issuance has grown around the globe, so have investor demands, international standards for it and regulatory rulemaking around it. Citi's Aoiffe McGarry and Fitch's Megan Neuburger discuss with The Bond Buyer's Lynne Funk.

Bankers say it isn't a crazy notion for a bank to charge multiple NSF fees on the same transaction because merchants often resubmit transactions for payment a second time, and the bank has no way of knowing if or when that happens.