“The asset management industry in particular has found it is quite productive to work from home,” says Mary Erdoes, who runs asset and wealth management at JPMorgan Chase.
The new policy will allow the company to close some work sites and reduce the size of others. It’s part of a broader effort to cut expenses to help offset revenue declines brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
The hiring of Rania Llewellyn comes a little more than a month after Jane Fraser was named Citigroup's chief executive, which will make her the first female head of a big Wall Street bank.
To help stop a cycle of systemic racism, bankers need to focus on advancing Black employees to leadership positions and create long-term relationships with Black-owned businesses.
Even more so than activist investors, customers and a new generation of employees are driving banks to back environmental, social and governance reforms, executives said during a Women in Banking roundtable hosted by American Banker.