Practice and client management

The U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global is closing the bulk of its operations in Japan as part of a move to adjust international investment amid a slump in the digital-asset sector.

As customers increasingly do their banking via smartphone apps and online, Santander and Argentine rivals including BBVA Argentina, Grupo Financiero Galicia and Grupo Supervielle, like their global peers, are pushing to close physical locations. But regulators won't let them.

Goldman Sachs is embarking on one of its biggest rounds of job cuts ever as it locks in on a plan to eliminate about 3,200 positions this week, with the bank's leadership going deeper than rivals to shed jobs.

The accident killed the plane's pilot, Utah businessman Nathan Ricks. The Seattle company has named an interim chief while Beardall recovers after surgery.

Roxane Bowering succeeded Andrea Thune as the next president and chief executive of the New York credit union.

The JPMorgan Chase CEO keeps brushing off the big question: Who will lead the House of Dimon after Dimon?

A shareholder group that is pushing the nation's largest banks to conduct racial equity audits criticized JPMorgan Chase's effort, while giving a more favorable review of a Citigroup report. Banks small and large launched racial equity initiatives in 2020 in the wake of protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd.

The National Credit Union Administration must justify its sharply higher operating budget for next year.

Financial institutions have launched tailored relief campaigns to help refugees begin rebuilding their lives.

A group of shareholders in the Dubuque, -Iowa-based bank, including a former chairman and CEO, have agreed to quit advocating for a sale of the $19.7 billion-asset company

In a survey by J.D. Power, customers of nine large banks expressed their growing unhappiness with service from human employees. Discontent rose the most among consumers under age 40.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is in talks to invest about $200 million in Akulaku, an Indonesian online lender backed by Jack Ma's Ant Group, according to people familiar with the matter.

The payments firm is staffing up as it accelerates its expansion in the U.S., and anticipates a pool of available tech workers.

The acquisition of Malvern Bancorp in Pennsylvania would provide added heft in suburban Philadelphia markets. It is easily First Bank's largest-ever M&A deal.

Micron's planned semiconductor chip factory near Syracuse along with IBM's expansion project in the Hudson Valley could inject as much as $120 billion into markets inside the footprint of the combined NBT Bancorp and Salisbury Bancorp. NBT CEO John Watt calls the economic investments a "transformational opportunity" for the region.

Regulators are chastising banks for compliance lapses among their fintech partners. But some say the software companies that connect them share some responsibility.

The U.K. exchange will spend at least $2.8 billion on cloud services from the tech giant over the next decade.

Goldman Sachs Group aims to cut at least a few hundred more jobs as the Wall Street titan restructures its struggling consumer business and braces for an uncertain economy in the year ahead.

WaFd Bank is using conversational artificial intelligence to make the contact center and online chat experience smoother for both customers and agents.

Plaid said it cut 260 staffers Wednesday after changing macroeconomic conditions forced it to rein in costs.