Diversity and equality

The training and certification organization chose a former bank and nonprofit official to lead its new Center for Economic Empowerment and Equality.

The wealth manager aims to build connections and take feedback through a new group resembling ones launched by rivals in recent years.

Rae becomes one of the few women leaders in financial services.

The organization’s new Thrive Center for Diversity will seek to address the lack of representation of race, ethnicity, age and sexual preference, in addition to gender disparities, in wealth management.

Financial inclusion is a key enabler to reducing poverty and Fintech is leading the way forward. New businesses and creative banking services are emerging with new means of providing financial services to the financially underserved. But technology is just part of the equation, not the whole solution. Join Daniel Wolfe, Editor-in-Chief of PaymentSource as he explores the issues surrounding financial services as infrastructure and how it can address the wealth gap in various communities with our special guests Wole Coaxum, Founder & CEO of MoCaFi and Marc Weill, Partner & Senior Advisor at Two Sigma Ventures.

Interim CFPB Director Dave Uejio expressed concern that financial institutions have dragged their feet in resolving disputes with consumers for service issues during the pandemic.

More than one-third of U.S. brokerage clients opened their first accounts in 2020, according to new research from the FINRA Foundation.

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles have moved from nice-to-have to business critical. Hear how Citi is facilitating and driving change.

The systems are expected to be updated by the end of April, following calls from financial advisors on social media to make a change.

Eastern Michigan’s program aims to connect people with disabilities and financial advisors to research and industry resources.

Even as the numbers improve, Black and Hispanic advisors are still vastly underrepresented within the industry.

Advisors may sometimes overlook clients with special needs, despite the size of the community and available tools like ABLE Accounts.

Instead of leading your team with the mantra "Never let them see you sweat," consider a more honest, real approach.

If you have clients who are people of color, here's how to help them navigate financial planning in a racially unequal world.

Just like the industries that they cover, the lack of Black representation among news outlets acts as a barrier against understanding and eliminating systemic racism.

It won’t just change the composition of corporate board rooms. It may change conversations with clients too.

Regulatory shifts, M&A, new technology — there’s a lot on the horizon for the industry.

An employee who left in 2018 said she experienced a barrage of racial and sexual antagonism while at the firm, such that “it is not possible to list all of the comments and conduct in one document."

Homogeneous industries and male executives are the primary target clients of the new consultancy, Kathleen Zemaitis says.

Efforts to diversify boardrooms have taken on new urgency this year as racial unrest called attention to income inequality and pressure mounted on banks and other publicly traded companies to do something about it.