Diversity and equality

In honor of International Women's Day, a look at how women are making an impact in the industry.

Creating an environment that employees love and recruiting a diverse workforce isn't easy. Here's how some Best Fintechs to Work For do it.

Is it realistic to think Wells Fargo might get a new female CEO? How one fintech makes women feel welcome, and how another fosters innovation. Plus some of our Most Powerful Women make big moves – two retire, one jumps from BNY Mellon to Amex, one exits a board and another joins one.

Bank of America, MX and Carolina Fintech Hub are training refugees and nontechies to become developers while at the same time showing corporate citizenship.

The Securities and Exchange Commission rejected the banks' arguments that the proposals amounted to shareholder micromanagement and that they have made ample disclosures.

Nap pods and beanbag chairs are nice, but what employees really care about are personal respect and generous compensation. Oh, and it helps to be dog-friendly.

Three years ago, the New York-based fintech started organizing a monthly gathering for its female employees. The meetings have helped participants find role models.

Richard Marotta, who became Berkshire Hills' CEO after his predecessor's abrupt resignation, says his top priorities are squeezing more profit from existing operations and improving corporate culture.

Mel Watt calls FHFA watchdog “sexist,” after it concludes he’s guilty of sexual harassment. State Street sues the "Fearless Girl" sculptor. Banks big and small face mounting pressure on gender pay gap and board diversity. And another top 40 U.S. bank might get a female CEO.

Even as the credit union movement becomes more inclusive, most institutions' C-suites haven't evolved.

Even as the movement grows through charter changes and field of membership expansions, some observers say many boards don’t yet reflect this dynamic.

Former FHFA Director Mel Watt attempted to coerce an agency employee to engage in a romantic relationship with him, according to an inspector general report.

Arjuna Capital is filing shareholder proposals with 11 financial and tech companies to uncover median gender pay gaps, which it said would determine if more women are concentrated in lower-paying jobs.

The bank said it will hold back bonuses to its former CEO and others as it probes the 1MDB scandal; the House is looking into the bank’s loans to Trump's firm.

Many credit unions already know they need to diversity their slate of directors. Here's how a handful of CUs have already started that process.

Credit unions will scramble to fill executive jobs as baby boomers retire. More institutions could recruit women as CEOs but there are still challenges to creating a diverse executive suite.

The largest banks are expected to soon receive requests to appear before the House Financial Services Committee; banks taking steps to curb scams.

The Financial Services Committee also announced the head of a newly created subcommittee on diversity and inclusion.

With a permanent director confirmed, the agency should take steps to establish a small-business data collection rule mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act.

Citi is the first to share its unadjusted pay gap and lays out its goals for improvement. Bankers will be getting to know the progressive female freshmen who are storming D.C. a lot better. Plus, lots of fintech people moves and Gillette's take on toxic masculinity.