One day after Provident Financial Services agreed to buy Lakeland Bancorp, the latter bank reached a redlining settlement with the Department of Justice. Now there are calls for regulators who are reviewing the deal to require the same of more banks.

The bank is reassigning staffers to busier divisions as attrition and hiring slow.

Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown wants regulators to hold public meetings on branch shutdowns in situations where community members request them. His request follows opposition to a closure in a low-income section of Toledo, Ohio.

More than 90% of appraisers are white, and researchers have found that bias leads to lower valuations for homeowners of color. A Flagstar executive said the mortgage-focused bank is "not just going to sit on the sidelines and watch this happen."

Credit unions have individually made progress in making their ranks more diverse and inclusive, but their efforts are starting to bump up against the political discourse over "woke" corporate cultures.

The Ohio-based bank concentrated most of its lending branches in majority-white neighborhoods and did nothing to compensate for its lack of physical presence, the DOJ claims.

A group including Dr. Bernice King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, and former SBA Regional Administrator Ashley Bell says the deal struck Tuesday to acquire Holladay Bank & Trust in Utah marks the first time Black investors have acquired a non-Black bank.

The new Greenlight for Work program allows employers to provide working parents with financial education for their whole family.

Nothing demoralizes a good employee like seeing managers tolerate a bad one.

It's long been understood that there's a digital divide between Black banks and credit unions and other depositories. A new Urban Institute analysis looks at the prevalence of online banking services and mobile apps — and finds a chasm between the haves and have-nots.

Employees at LMCU's Bonita Beach Road location in Florida announced their intent to organize to address claims of being overworked.

Firms under $1 billion of assets that never had a chief risk or credit officer, for example, are creating these roles — and in some cases filling them with executives who were displaced by a merger at their last employer.

The banking industry appears to be stuck when it comes to diversifying the leadership ranks.

Comun is one of several emerging neobanks specifically for Latino immigrants to the United States, but it has a distinctive feature: The default language is Spanish.

After deep job cuts, the bank plans to focus on cutting costs this year, CEO says.

For Members Only Federal Credit Union in Chicago, which was founded by the African American sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, is focused on helping members build generational wealth.

Goldman Sachs, Capital One and New York Community Bank are shrinking their workforces, and other banks are planning to do the same. Whether such reductions become more widespread will depend largely on loan demand in 2023, according to analysts.

The bank was already mulling headcount and compensation reductions in early September.

A fraught but often-overlooked episode near the end of the retired baseball legend's life carries lessons and inspiration for financial professionals.

Ivan Diaz, a former member service representative who led the unionization campaign for staff of the South Division Avenue branch last year, was fired on Feb. 1. He alleges his role in the campaign is the true cause of his dismissal.