News Topic: Diversity and equality

Getting more women into managerial posts matters to TD Bank, and a robust mentoring program is making a big difference. ... Read full article

JPMorgan Chase has reached a settlement with financial advisers who say they were treated poorly because they're black. ... Read full article

The USAmeriBank deal was supposed to give Valley National Bancorp a bigger presence in Florida, but it did more than that — it provided a model for banking businesswomen that Valley can copy in its New York and New Jersey markets. ... Read full article

See the perks employees get at the 85 financial institutions that made our sixth annual Best Banks to Work For list. ... Read full article

BNY Mellon, JPMorgan and Bank of America are recruiting interns from Year Up, many of whom lack college degrees but are trained in high-demand fields such as cybersecurity and anti-money-laundering. ... Read full article

After years of scant progress on diversity measures, Citigroup has created hard targets for raising the percentages of women and African Americans in management positions by 2021, according to an internal memo from Chief Executive Officer Michael Corbat. ... Read full article

JPMorgan Chase, SunTrust and PNC are pressuring outside counsel to get more women and minority lawyers to represent them in court even at the risk of alienating the big, traditional law firms that they have done business with for years. ... Read full article

Clara Green will head the Diversity and Inclusion Center of Expertise at the Alabama bank. ... Read full article

Goldman’s next CEO pushes for more women in senior roles. Fifth Third’s program to retain new moms is working. And there’s good news and bad news at Bank of America, as it bulks up on female summer interns but pays out millions to an exec fired over sexual ... Read full article

A Chicago bank isn't afraid of taking on competitors that spend billions on technology. A state regulator is afraid of giving fintech startups too much latitude. Yet another one of our Most Powerful Women retires. Plus, blockchain's leading ... Read full article

Bank of America is in expansion mode and wants to add 10,000 retail and other workers who better reflect the communities it serves. ... Read full article

Starling's Anne Boden and Mastercard's Ann Cairns have a similar warning for the banking and tech sectors. Facebook scolds activist investor Natasha Lamb for being "not nice." And some big Most Powerful Women moves, as Catherine Keating ... Read full article

Even with the decline, the nation's largest bank still employs a higher percentage of black employees in the U.S. than its rivals. ... Read full article

The bank’s joint initiative with CFSI awards capital to firms trying to address issues that the startup teams personally experienced. ... Read full article

Financial institutions have spent time and money to try to make their branches and digital services more accessible, but Fifth Third and TD Bank are among employers working with the nonprofit Project SEARCH to meet an overlooked need: finding jobs for ... Read full article

Black workers are now down to about one in ten U.S. employees inside Citigroup, according to 2017 figures in a report published on its website. ... Read full article

Bankers to British royalty are not so decorous. Aussies play the (gender) blame game, after AMP fiasco. NYSE's Stacey Cunningham could be standing on a cliff. And, what’s with the men of "Arrested Development"? ... Read full article

With all the attention around more women running for office, women's marches, and the #MeToo movement, there is growing demand for investment options that support women too, says Veris' Luisamarie Ruiz Carlile. ... Read full article