The Texas fintech embraces a progressive culture and has taken steps during the pandemic to maintain a spirited vibe even as employees work remotely.

Brees, who recently retired as the quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, is a customer of the Louisiana banking company.

Half of Facet Wealth’s employees haven’t met face-to-face. Here is how the fintech is working to strengthen community.

Activist investors are pressuring big banks to further curtail lending to the fossil-fuel industry, undergo so-called racial-equity audits and disclose more about their lobbying practices and financing of nuclear weapons manufacturers.

Virtual training and orientation, including any licensing needed, will begin in July for the bank’s campus hires, with the aim of having new employees at offices in October, Bank of America said.

The credit union has made a four-year commitment to support the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission and Greenwood Rising, a local history center.

The economy is poised to rebound, meaning loan demand and hiring will pick up, some observers say. Others argue that banks have plenty of reasons to cut jobs given industry consolidation, the growth of digital banking and expectations that low interest rates will persist.

Mehrsa Baradaran, a University of California, Irvine, professor and former banking lawyer, has worked hard to close the racial wealth gap and could further such goals as head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, wrote 34 caucus members in a letter to President Biden.

JPMorgan Chase said it plans to hire 300 additional Black and Latinx wealth advisers by 2025 to serve more clients from those communities and allow employees from diverse backgrounds to advance in their careers.

Brown, who was most recently Goldman's chief diversity officer, will join Citigroup in the coming months as chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer and global head of talent.