Allissa Kline is a Buffalo, New York-based reporter who writes about national and regional banks and commercial and retail banking trends. She joined American Banker in 2020 and previously worked for more than a decade at Buffalo Business First, where she covered banking and finance, insurance and accounting. Kline started her journalism career at the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York. She graduated from Colgate University and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
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The Evansville, Indiana, company introduced a boutique-style wealth management business called 1834, which caters to high-net-worth clients.
January 18 -
Since the start of the month, the San Francisco-based bank has announced the addition of three wealth management teams — one each from Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
November 15 -
The megabank rolled out new and expanded employee diversity targets that it aims to meet by 2025. The goals include placing more Hispanics in leadership roles and boosting the number of LGBTQ+ members the company hires from colleges and universities.
September 20 -
In a quarter filled with economic and geopolitical uncertainty, the New York investment firm’s digital consumer bank achieved record-high revenues. Executives have said they plan to drive up revenues in that segment to $4 billion by 2024.
July 18 -
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo joined Citigroup in pledging to expand benefits to cover travel for out-of-state abortions. Smaller banks in blue states were more vocal, with one female CEO saying: “I stand in disbelief.”
June 24 -
David Miree will become global head of diversity, equity and inclusion for the New York megabank. He will succeed Brian Lamb, who will move into a new role in the firm’s commercial banking business.
March 22 -
Across the country, banks of all sizes are investing in the wealth business as a way to deepen customer relationships, capture recurring revenues and tap into a massive transfer of wealth from baby boomers to Generation X and millennials. A lot of money is up for grabs, but maybe not enough to go around.
February 28 -
Deland Kamanga, the company's head of global markets, has been tapped to lead a unit with operations in both Canada and the U.S.
October 29 -
The four largest U.S. banks face investor pressure to deliver the returns of smaller rivals, but they complain that the federal deposit cap and capital rules make that difficult. So they're pouring money into wealth management, payments and digital banking to seize more market share in existing businesses and fend off nonbank challengers.
June 9 -
The efforts to bolster risk controls and simplify global operations will ultimately lead to better shareholder returns, Jane Fraser said, while urging investors to show patience.
June 4
