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Poor CEO succession planning poses “a significant risk” for U.S. banks, according to?an analysis this month?from leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates.

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-IA,?and five other lawmakers?wrote a letter?to FDIC IG Jennifer Fain, asserting that it was “unacceptable” that victims of 500-plus instances of sexual harassment are still awaiting justice more than a year after a bombshell Wall Street Journal report exposed flaws in the agency’s work culture.

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Partner Jay Clayton is an M&A and capital markets specialist who chaired the Securities and Exchange Commission in the first Trump administration. He took an interest in small investor protections but also pushed to give companies more ways to go public in a bid to increase initial public offerings.?

After Republican President-elect Donald Trump indicated late last week that JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon won’t be offered the role of Treasury secretary, the CEO of the biggest U.S. bank was quick to offer a retort.

Rep. French Hill, R-AR, put forth plans Thursday designed to support community banking, as he angles for the top Republican spot on the House Financial Services Committee.

Eighteen Republican attorneys general?are suing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission?and its commissioners for allegedly exceeding agency authority with its enforcement actions against the cryptocurrency industry.

Hope Dmuchowski, CFO at Memphis, Tennessee-based First Horizon Bank, lamented the frenzy of regulatory change in recent years and the resulting expense for banks. “We are hopeful, with the change in administration, that the pace of regulatory change that makes banking more and more expensive every year starts to slow if not reverse,” she said last week during a conference appearance.

DFCU Financial’s third acquisition in Florida in the last two years -- of Winter Park National Bank -- will expand the credit union’s presence beyond its existing footprint, which covers Tampa, St. Petersburg, Naples, and Ft. Myers.

Jacques Chappuis, whom the bank named co-head of its investment management unit?last November, has left Morgan Stanley to lead PGIM, Prudential Financial’s global asset management business, effective May 1, the insurance giant?said Friday. His departure leaves Benjamin Huneke as the sole top executive in investment management at Morgan Stanley.