News Topic: Women in Banking

Royal Bank of Canada fired its U.S. investment banking chief Blair Fleming because he failed to disclose that he was having an improper relationship with an employee. ... Read full article

Kathy Thorson, who is currently a market president at MetaBank, will oversee strategy for all of its four markets. ... 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

Bakhshi, CEO of the bank since 2016, shares how she's improving customer journeys, making the bank a better place to work, and creating a culture of innovation.  ... 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

The New York company on Friday promoted Wahida Plummer, who was previously in charge of regulatory matters, to chief risk officer and expanded the role of its chief credit officer. ... Read full article

Shari Van Cleave, head of Wells Fargo Digital Labs, says the bank is experimenting with artificial intelligence and augmented reality to create new ways to present data to customers. ... Read full article

Jelena McWilliams, most recently chief legal officer at Fifth Third, previously served as a Senate GOP aide and an attorney at the Federal Reserve Board. ... 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

Senior executives from Barclays, Bank of America and other big banks urged women to aim high, take chances on challenging jobs and — perhaps most important — provide support to other high-performing female colleagues instead of viewing them as a threat. ... Read full article

Even as Jamie Dimon touts the female leadership at his company, it lags in one key area. But JPMorgan women are making strides in particular with blockchain initiatives, and Amber Baldet finally shares what she is working on. Plus: heels or flats? ... Read full article

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester warned against dismantling core reforms that have made U.S. banks better able to withstand a financial crisis. ... Read full article

Women frustrated with limited opportunities for advancement and problems with sexual harassment should consider creating their own financial institutions tailored to the needs of female consumers. ... Read full article

JPMorgan Chase’s Thasunda Duckett is living her ancestors’ wildest dreams; Morgan Stanley could take a lesson from Citi on reining in rainmakers; and Jelena McWilliams faces tough choices at the FDIC. Plus, babysitting gets approved as a new type of ... Read full article

Manuela Veloso, head of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, will join the bank in July. ... Read full article

Banks need to respond swiftly to allegations of sexual harassment and other misdeeds, even those involving their top performers. ... Read full article

Thasunda Duckett discussed her journey to becoming CEO of consumer banking at JPMorgan Chase, a career path that, she noted, wasn't available to African-American executives only a generation ago. ... Read full article

Lorie Shannon, recruited from SunTrust, will oversee a strategy that features large, non-QM mortgages in key markets. ... Read full article