Diversity and equality

The Justice Department and the CFPB are increasingly relying on emails among employees that contain discriminatory comments to strengthen their hand in cases against lenders.

The megabank, which is eliminating about 5,000 jobs in a first round of restructuring, said that it's paused its annual review of racial and gender pay gaps. Citi will conduct a 2023 review sometime later this year, a source said.

For the second straight year, Goldman Sachs shareholders have filed a proposal calling for more details on racial and gender pay gaps. The request comes as the investment banking giant faces scrutiny over its lack of high-ranking women leaders.

An advocate for the credit union industry pushes back against "tired" and "recycled" criticism from bankers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it is in favor of consumer choice, but its shifting position on earned wage access calls that commitment into question.

A mixed-race couple claims a "whitewashed" valuation in 2023 returned a price 39% higher than the depository-approved result a year earlier.

She mixed outspoken activism with business pragmatism, launching a bank that helped hundreds of African Americans buy homes in her longtime community.

Characterizing them as 'schemes' unfairly impugns a service that cash-strapped consumers value and have come to count on.

People should have the option of having their rent and utilities payment history reported to credit bureaus in order to build up their credit history.

The longtime Most Powerful Women in Banking honoree looks back on her 40-year career and the power of persistence.