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Three Black-owned U.S. banks have bought a piece of a $1.23 billion syndicated corporate loan, a rare move in a market typically dominated by bigger Wall Street and regional lenders.  

European banks are starting to count the cost of their employees’ messaging habits, which have caught the attention of U.S. regulators in a sweeping global investigation.

Visa said it will hand out annual raises for more-junior employees earlier as it seeks to help staffers battling once-in-a-generation levels of inflation.

First introduced in 2020, the Fair Access to Financial Services Act would require banks to serve all customers in a manner similar to existing requirements for hotels and restaurants under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

UBS signaled that it’s part of a broad probe by U.S. regulators into messaging by bank employees that’s likely to saddle lenders with fines of about $1 billion.

Credit Suisse Group, the Swiss bank that lost dozens of key dealmakers last year, is once again offering lucrative retention payments to prevent senior talent from leaving. 

HSBC Holdings' U.K. unit is planning to stop collecting data on the gender of its customers across some products as the bank pursues more inclusive services for nonbinary and trans people.

Bank of America is keeping to its original hiring plans despite challenging economic conditions that have prompted others to pull back, Chief Executive Brian Moynihan said.

JPMorgan Chase must face a trial over claims by a former vice president in its anti-corruption unit that she was marginalized, mistreated and fired from the bank for complaining about compliance failures.

Alloy, Marqeta and other technology firms drafted policies to assist employees in states that restrict abortion access, even before they had all the answers.

Goldman Sachs Group, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup each reported a substantially larger workforce in the second quarter compared with a year earlier. Across the six biggest U.S. banks, the average gain in employment was 5.5% compared with mid-2021.

Goldman Sachs Group plans to slow hiring and reinstate annual performance reviews as the Wall Street bank looks to rein in expenses.

Data as of Mar. 31, 2022. Dollars in thousands.

Data as of Mar. 31, 2022. Dollars in thousands.

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.

Totem's digital banking app is the first created by and for Native Americans. The challenger bank will help each of its partner tribes offer uniquely branded apps that provide banking services, distribute government assistance and teach users how to build their credit.

Bank of Montreal is raising the minimum wage for its U.S. branch and contact-center employees to $20 an hour, its second such pay bump in less than a year, as companies fight for workers in a tight labor market.

American Banker's Allissa Kline speaks with Shaun Bisman and Kelly Malafis of Compensation Advisory Partners about the rise of retention payments and other recent developments in the executive compensation landscape.