Practice and client management

Richard Green is the third member of his family to run Firstrust Bank in Pennsylvania, but at 70, he is ready to step aside. His son Jeff is 27 and is — ironically — still too green for the role.

The Phoenix bank is forming an executive leadership team that it said will ensure continuity within its senior ranks. The moves come five months after CEO Kenneth Vecchione received a contract extension through at least 2024.

Citigroup is seeking 400 more staff for its Belfast office as it expands rapidly outside of London, according to a senior executive at the bank.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is making it very difficult for Citigroup to fetch a price even vaguely close to the $12.5 billion it paid for the bank two decades ago. 

Since last year, banks have sharply reduced what they charge when consumers spend more money than they have, according to new research. Monthly maintenance charges and fees for using out-of-network ATMs have remained much more stable.

Three New York City pensions filed shareholder proposals with Mastercard and American Express urging the credit card companies to improve tracking of gun sales.

Meg Carpenter, founder and CEO of FiComm partners, discusses the difficulties RIAs have in marketing themselves, the ways in which these entrepreneurs can build on their strengths to reach clients, and how to harness technology to boost their own profiles.

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.

Verifying the identity of a business is a much more complex task than verifying the identity of an individual, yet the underlying technology used in both is the same.

The agency issued an interpretive rule earlier this month that said digital marketers must comply with federal consumer financial protection law. Banks will need to double down on compliance when engaging with these companies.

The megabank had previously announced plans to shed consumer and commercial banking units in Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February. The revised plan is expected to cost about $170 million over the next year and a half.

Goldman Sachs Group is reconsidering how to launch a long-delayed product for the masses as senior executives wrestle with cost overruns.

Neal Holland, who has been serving as MUFG Union Bank's chief financial officer, will assume the same role at First Republic. It is the latest in a series of recent changes in the San Francisco bank's leadership ranks.

Credit Suisse Group is shifting resources in the pursuit of business from a broader range of rich clients, as the lender focuses more on wealth management amid cuts to its troubled investment bank. 

Conversations with about a dozen Credit Suisse dealmakers, traders, financiers and wealth advisors depict a unit girded for a reckoning.

The billionaire founder of Paytm emerged unscathed in a crucial test of investor confidence, with a forceful majority of shareholders voting to keep him at the helm of the fintech pioneer that made one of the worst market debuts in Indian history.

Younger and more diverse leaders may better represent the local community. But bringing new people into the board room requires persistent and targeted outreach.

Matt Damon's pitch to invest in crypto has disappeared from U.S. television sets. Same goes for glitzy commercials starring LeBron James and Tom Brady.

Jonathan W. Roberts will transition from his roles with Webster Bank in Connecticut to lead the credit union on Sept. 19.