It could take a while to achieve those goals – more than half of credit union boards don’t have term limits for directors, the report showed.

The African-American Credit Union Coalition will recognize three industry leaders, one posthumously, during an event in Washington later this month.

The Financial Services Committee will also hold hearings next month on monetary policy, the CFPB and "astroturfing" worries, among other things.

All three executives began as tellers and have been with the institution for a dozen years or more.

Until the gender gap of the technology, banking and payment industries change, innovation will continue to be impacted, says Itemize's Samantha Fisher.

The changes will mean a bigger gap between the best and worst borrowers; the bank will require companies they take public to have a ‘diverse’ board member.

The Madison, Wis.-based think tank's latest initiative is another sign of the increasing emphasis the credit union industry is placing on diversity, equity and inclusion.

IBM called for rules aimed at eliminating bias in artificial intelligence to ease concerns that the technology relies on data that bakes in past discriminatory practices and could harm women, minorities, the disabled, older Americans and others.

Doug Nielson at U.S. Bank and Jane Barratt at MX explain how men can be more supportive of their female colleagues.

The agency issued a fair housing proposal last month that would perpetuate segregation and make it harder to detect discrimination.