News Topic: Women in Banking

Why IEX's Sara Furber says you should not fear the big jobs, and why Square says banks have nothing to fear in its bid for an ILC charter. Plus, workplaces women like and Lena Waithe on using your superpowers. ... Read full article

Many women see their highest pay at an earlier age than men, take more career breaks, and live longer. Krawcheck just got $34 million to work on that. ... Read full article

In the string of scandals over how women are treated in the tech sector, SoFi is particularly egregious. Reese Witherspoon tackles the trouble with ambition for women. Plus, Edith Cooper and Lori Beer. ... Read full article

Fifth Third's Melissa Stevens targets millennials with new app. Meanwhile, regulators are accused of ignoring millennials. Plus, a Goldman Sachs wealth manager sues for discrimination. ... Read full article

Chase's Amber Baldet shares how she got interested in technology; Credit Suisse’s Laura Hemrika talks microfinance; and a few of our Best Banks to Work For have female CEOs. ... Read full article

The goal, according to Wells Fargo's head of community banking, is to focus on how customers are treated rather than how many products they buy as well as create a consistent approach to the megabank's sprawling branch network. ... Read full article

The Swiss bank got involved in microfinance in a counterintuitive way: at the behest of its wealthiest clients. Technology has made lending in small rural villages more efficient and profitable. ... Read full article

Beverly Anderson, who had held the job on an interim basis since March, leads a unit that has been roiled by the bank's unauthorized-accounts scandal. ... Read full article

The uplifting story of another Virginia statue — this one honoring the first black female to charter a bank — is well-timed. Plus, JPMorgan Chase's O'Connor on laboring over Libor and U.S. Bank's Lawler on getting people to do the right ... Read full article

Sanger is out at Wells Fargo and so it is a crisis that gives us our first female board chair at a major U.S. bank. Women lead two major tech initiatives at JPMorgan Chase, which is also adding a fourth woman to its executive committee. ... Read full article

A Fed committee studying Libor’s replacement has dwelled heavily on the potential impact to the derivatives market. Loans may become a bigger part of the conversation later this year, but the panel plans to leave a lot of the specifics up to lenders. ... Read full article

One untapped resource is appealing to investors to allocate more of their private wealth to companies with successful gender diversity programs. ... Read full article

JPMorgan CEO Dimon says banks are putting Silicon Valley to shame … in terms of diversity; Uber’s plan to replace its CEO with a woman seems to be sputtering; and Yellen’s potential successors also are all men. ... Read full article

Chairman Stephen Sanger could step down ahead of the embattled bank's next annual meeting, according to a news report, clearing the way for the elevation of Duke, the current vice chairman and a former Fed governor and banking executive. ... Read full article

Heather Tuason is now chief product officer of StreetShares, an online lending and investing platform. ... Read full article

Fifth Third’s new chief legal counsel, Jelena McWilliams, might be changing jobs again and Australia’s first female bank CEO tells all in a memoir. Plus, the advantage with female founders, and young feminists on the rise. ... Read full article

Online lending platform Kabbage announced Thursday it has raised $250 million from Japanese telecom giant SoftBank, marking its largest equity fundraising round to date. ... Read full article

As an investment community, we have to realize that any system with 90% homogeneity is vulnerable, while diversity makes the system more resilient. ... Read full article