Gender discrimination

Controversies over trainings that address white male privilege detract from the important role DEI initiatives play in helping the country move forward.

Invaluable insight for those in the LGBTQ community and all those who want to be better allies from the lived experience of Maeve DuVally from Goldman Sachs

Banks must address the societal issues that resonate deeply with their customers and communities, says Regions Financial chief John Turner.

Women suing Goldman Sachs Group for gender discrimination are going after any internal documents with words like “babe,” “bimbo” or worse that they say would show bias by executives who administered the bank’s promotion and evaluation policies.

Traditional lenders must embrace fintech underwriting tools that would help women- and monitory-owned businesses get loans they are too often denied.

The legislation would extend to the banking system the Civil Rights Act's protections for customers of hotels and restaurants.

Any regulator or bank should build from a foundation of diversity, dignity and respect, says Grovetta Gardineer, the agency's head of national bank supervision policy.

The bar to prove discriminatory patterns is so high that plaintiffs would have slim odds of winning lawsuits against housing providers.

Unlocking the power of diversity doesn't just happen, it starts with inclusion, so we can benefit from diverse insights that will drive innovation to shape the future of payments, says TD Bank's Angela Conti..

Some institutions have long worked to recruit a diverse workforce and address discrimination but these initiatives have taken on greater importance as protests have highlighted racial inequality.

The increased use of technology, along with holistic data points, can eradicate racial and gender disparity for fintech lenders in small business, says Become’s Eden Amirav.

The increased use of technology, along with holistic data points, can eradicate racial and gender disparity for fintech lenders in small business, says Become’s Eden Amirav.

Minorities are often hit harder financially during a crisis, but if regulators move forward on revamping the Community Reinvestment Act, they’ll only make matters worse.

Attempts to rewrite the method for determining unintended discrimination in housing should not bleed into fair-lending laws.

CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger promised to complete the rule mandated by Dodd-Frank one day after a California court set a process for doing so.

After dragging its feet, the agency has agreed to a court-supervised process for writing a Dodd-Frank-mandated rule aimed at stamping out discrimination.

A study by the House Financial Services Committee on the industry’s efforts to hire and promote more women and minorities has sparked a dispute over whether banks should have to be more transparent about those efforts.

IBM called for rules aimed at eliminating bias in artificial intelligence to ease concerns that the technology relies on data that bakes in past discriminatory practices and could harm women, minorities, the disabled, older Americans and others.

Doug Nielson at U.S. Bank and Jane Barratt at MX explain how men can be more supportive of their female colleagues.

New legislation in Congress seeks to do away with a data-collection mandate that addressed discrimination in business lending. The repeal measure has the support of two bank industry groups based in Washington.