Workplace culture

Sexual assaults, lurid propositions and a sex tape pack the latest filings in a class action against Goldman Sachs. But it's a boss's comment about his assistant's engagement ring two decades ago and a woman who complained an executive checked her out that have set off an especially bitter dispute in the case.

Leaders who set clear expectations do not create hostile settings. If anything, good people are motivated knowing what they do is noticed and matters.

U.S. regulators are poised to announce a settlement of about $2 billion with firms across Wall Street for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps.

A female Commerzbank manager who was described by her manager as having an "unhealthy obsession with work" won her sex discrimination claim for a second time.

Sarver, who owns the NBA's Phoenix Suns and the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, is facing a one-year suspension and a $10 million fine after an investigation found evidence of workplace misconduct. The Arizona bank where Sarver previously served as chairman and CEO is also discussed in an investigative report released Tuesday.

Bosses are expecting workers to finally start showing up regularly at Manhattan offices that have been sparsely populated for more than two years.

Executives at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's London office kept a book full of "sexually suggestive comments" about women for a decade, in the latest employment tribunal case to shine a light on banking's sexist culture. 

Regulators are poised to extract about $1 billion in fines from the five biggest U.S. investment banks for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps.

Morgan Stanley said it expects to pay a $200 million fine related to a broad U.S. investigation into the use of unapproved personal devices.

Citigroup has won part of its appeal in a discrimination suit brought by a former banker who was laid off after being called “old” at the age of 55.

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?

In conversation with Patti Cook, CEO of Finance of America Companies

Join Maggie Kimberl, President of the Bourbon Women Association for a peek behind the scenes of the bourbon industry. Learn more about the women that are rising in the male-dominated spirits sector, the proper bourbon tasting technique and a little bit of the history of bourbon.

Respecting employees’ time and expecting them to respect others’ sets a tone. It brings structure to organizations and fosters professionalism, reliability and trustworthiness.

Employees at Genesee Co-Op Federal Credit Union in New York and Beneficial State Bank in California formed unions in the past year to bargain for better wages and reform their corporate cultures. Will workers at other community institutions follow their lead?

Bessant & Erdoes: In conversation

In this fireside chat, Ida Liu, the global head of Citi Private Bank, covers a range of topics, including how digital client engagement is evolving.

What else do banks need to do to achieve gender parity more quickly? What are the tech innovations that will be most impactful for the banking industry? What will the surviving banks look like a decade from now?

A dispersed workforce presents added cybersecurity challenges resulting from employees accessing their organization’s networks through a home connection. This new reality reinforces the need for financial institutions to transform their digital infrastructure to guard against breaches.

Experts discuss the proliferation of chief diversity officers across the industry and what it may mean for future progress in diversity.