Three female banking executives share how they have learned, grown and been inspired in their careers.

"Do you really think I could do this?" the aspiring entrepreneur asks Patti Husic. She offers encouragement, understanding the value of imagination and inspiration in helping small businesses launch and grow.

On the latest episode of the ABA Newsbytes Podcast, career banker and leadership coach Ditu Kasuyi joins Sara Reid, leader of ABA's Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, plus co-hosts Evan Sparks and Shaun Kern to discuss why -- and how -- banks can enhance the diversity of their workforces.

ABA today congratulated the women named to American Banker Magazine’s “25 Most Powerful Women in Banking” and “25 Women to Watch in Banking” lists for 2017.

African-American mistrust of banks was endemic in the late 19th century, but that began to change with Maggie Lena Walker.

As it prepares to implement Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this morning issued a request for information on various aspects of the market for small business loans.

Successful, diverse companies no doubt have an easier time attracting both talent and customers. As community leaders, our industry must embrace such a competitive differentiator. And in so doing—by comparison—become rare in our diversity rather than have our diversity be rare.

While overall youth aspirations to start businesses and invent innovative products has remained steady or declined gently, the percentage of ethnic or racial minority young people who say they plan to start their own company has fallen by double digits in five years, according to the latest Gallup/Operation Hope index of young Americans’ economic energy.

The 157 FDIC-insured minority depository institutions tend to lag community banks overall in terms of profitability, but the sector is seeing higher loan growth driven by commercial real estate, according to an FDIC report today.

Twenty-two House Democrats today urged the Federal Reserve to ensure it recruits a diverse candidate pool for the presidency of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, which Jeffrey Lacker will vacate in October.