Wealth management

Pride month is the perfect time to take a hard look at the discrimination that LGBTQ people face in the financial services industry, particularly when it comes to obtaining credit.

The additions allow the Rhode Island bank to expand its wealth management footprint along the East Coast and in San Francisco, where the recently shuttered First Republic was based.

UBS Group AG poached nearly a dozen of the firm's top technology bankers, while others have left for Pickering Energy Partners and Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

Ellevest CEO and co-founder Sallie Krawcheck joins Chana Schoenberger, editor-in-chief of American Banker, to discuss how the investing world is changing and how women in banking and finance can succeed.

In a vote of confidence in the industry, insiders aggressively bought shares of their own companies after a crisis sparked the collapse of four regional lenders earlier this year.

Led by Chairman Marshall Reynolds, the entire board of directors participated in a private placement that raised $10 million for the Hammond, Louisiana, company.

A pair of mutual banks in Maryland and New York that sold minority stakes more than a decade ago are pursuing second-step offerings that will result in both becoming fully stock-traded companies.

The product, designed for wealth management customers, is the first in the U.S. to implement Mastercard's Touch Card, which helps people distinguish credit, debit and prepaid cards through a notch on the card's edge.

The Seattle bank is a victim of the short selling that has rocked the banking industry this year and its stock price doesn't reflect its fundamentals, CEO Mark Mason argues.

Venture capital banking and wealth management are two areas where the nation's largest bank sees a chance to make gains amid a rash of bank failures. After the company's investor day on Monday, one analyst wrote: "Goliath is winning."