Democratic senators led by Bob Menendez urged the Federal Reserve to take a more active role in the selection process of the heads of its regional banks so that more diverse candidates would be considered.

The bank’s current focus is on its Calgary innovation hub, where it’s looking to reach 300 employees by the end of next year.

OneAZ Credit Union built a vendor diversity database, based on a program from Arizona State University, to guide its spending at small businesses. It plans to allow other financial institutions to access this system as well.

The state-sponsored entity plans to launch a $250 million “community decarbonization fund” to finance electrification, energy efficiency and onsite power projects in disadvantaged communities.

Banks, fintechs, and financial institutions may have stepped up their diversity and inclusion efforts, but these industries still have a retention problem. What are the issues at play and what can be done to keep executive women in the C-Suite?

An aging workforce will likely force banks to reconsider the employees they recruit, especially for executive roles.

Companies such as Biz2Credit, Episode Six and VizyPay look for people from varied backgrounds and pitch their flexibility (or, sometimes, strong office culture) in bids to find great employees.

Paul Taylor, one of the company's directors, will become president in anticipation of succeeding Matthew Wagner, who has been chief executive for 22 years and plans to retire at the end of 2023.

The layoff is another sign of a worsening crypto downturn that’s shaved off hundreds of millions of the total cryptocurrency market value.

Two big names in crypto are cutting jobs as the digital currency market continues to spiral downward.

Black employees at Citi in the category that includes midlevel managers jumped to 777 from 633 a year earlier.

The names of two Goldman Sachs Group executives mentioned in years-old internal complaints won’t be made public in one of Wall Street’s biggest gender discrimination lawsuits.

A recent survey indicated banks and other firms continue to grapple with the cybersecurity challenges of remote work. To defend their data, they’re looking far beyond the traditional VPN.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating the bank over allegations that it conducted so-called fake interviews with nonwhite and female job applicants, The New York Times reported Thursday.

The lender’s minimum wage will rise to C$20 per hour in Canada and $20 in the U.S. in July, and the bank is committing to raise those figures to C$25 and $25 by the end of 2025, according to a statement from CEO Victor Dodig on Thursday.

A new study has found that Black and Hispanic borrowers are denied conventional mortgages at higher rates than white applicants and pay up to $2,000 more to refinance.

The nonprofit First Step Alliance is working to launch Diverge Federal Credit Union, which plans to offer loans to cover the costs of gender affirmation surgery for individuals and adoption for same-sex couples.

The products MSU Federal Credit Union in Michigan is developing for transgender and nonbinary members also appeal to international and indigenous people, who often go by names that don't match their birth certificates.

Bank of Montreal hired Piyush Agrawal from Citigroup as chief risk officer to succeed Patrick Cronin, who’s stepping down later this year.