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Big banks are ramping up efforts to retain and promote women leaders, the paper reports. The article takes a look at initiatives including a Citigroup symposium that brought together 50 senior women to discuss ways to improve gender diversity and Morgan Stanley's attempt to get more male managers involved in its development program for women at the vice president level. Whether these programs will successfully propel more women into the C-suite remains to...

Nacha's same-day ACH payments are unlikely to improve business-to-business payments without additional tweaks. Other payment rails can also help put a solid infrastructure in place.

Research suggests that women in male-dominated fields like banking and finance often worried about encountering gender stereotypes. This makes them less satisfied in their jobs and more likely to quit.

Receiving Wide Coverage ... Another Day, Another Probe: Swiss regulators are investigating whether seven banks worked together to manipulate precious-metals trading prices. The banks under investigation by the Swiss regulator WEKO are UBS, Julius Baer Group, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Mitsui. Similar probes have already been put underway by U.S. and European Union regulators. Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Financial Times. Wall Street Journal Â...

The rankings of the Most Powerful Women in Banking and Finance include some familiar faces (KeyCorp's Beth Mooney of course), but also plenty of newcomers (including U.S. Bancorp's Kathy Rogers, JPMorgan Chase's Thasunda Duckett and Wells Fargo's Yvette Hollingsworth Clark). We also look at efforts to bring more women into boardrooms and have an op-ed by the CEO of HSBC USA.