At the Most Powerful Women in Banking conference, asset management leader Jenny Johnson discussed opportunities and risks for portfolio managers in 2023.

Kevin Meyersburg, who is white, says in a lawsuit that the Wall Street investment bank terminated his employment and replaced him with a Black woman who is less qualified for the position. Morgan Stanley declined to comment.

The job cuts come amid caution about the industry's growth potential in the second half of the year. Some 45,000 positions have been lost in banking and related industries over the last two-plus years.

Roughly one in two people who work in finance would change jobs —  or already have — if their managers required them to spend more time in the office, according to a new survey.

The Philadelphia-based company will eliminate an undisclosed number of jobs as part of a plan to refocus on core business lines and markets, CEO Thomas Geisel said.

Prosecutors claim every dollar in subsidy funds from settlements equates to ten times the amount in value in home lending efforts.

Headcount at the nation's second-largest bank has fallen by around 1,000 since the end of last month. More job reductions are in the works after noninterest expenses rose by 6% during the first quarter.

The bank was already mulling headcount and compensation reductions in early September.

Truist Financial eliminated about 5% of its investment banking division amid uncertainty surrounding the dealmaking environment, according to people with knowledge with the matter.

The layoff round, which a spokesperson said represents "less than one quarter of one percent of the roles in the company," comes after Rocket announced a 20-person reduction in the marketing team in early January.

The fintech is also relying more heavily on its bank charter as rising interest rates make selling loans to investors more challenging.

The Arizona-based lender has been in business for 35 years and has branches in over 20 states.

The firm said it would still originate and service loans out of the office where the cost-cutting measures will occur.

Bank of America is slowing hiring as fewer employees leave in an attempt to manage the company's headcount ahead of a possible U.S. recession, Chief Executive Brian Moynihan said.

The firms trimming payroll include lenders, a mortgage insurance giant, an iBuyer and an online notarization software provider.

While the total number is less than some previous rounds, the reductions are a resumption of Goldman's annual culling cycle that it had largely paused during the pandemic, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The Minneapolis company, which increased its minimum wage to $18 an hour in June, will bump it up to $20 in response to inflationary and competitive pressures.

The San Francisco megabank plans to reinstate guidance that drew scrutiny following revelations that women and nonwhite candidates were interviewed for jobs that had been reserved for someone else.

Natixis’s co-head of structured credit and credit trading has left the bank to join New York-based private equity shop Blue Owl Capital, as the firm seeks to step up its efforts in the collateralized loan obligation market.

Mizuho Securities’ head structurer of collateralized loan obligations has joined New York-based private equity firm Blue Owl Capital as it makes a push into the broadly syndicated CLO industry.