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Bank of America said in early May that it, too, was looking for new directors. Regulators are reportedly pushing the bank to add more outside directors with financial-industry experience. Shareholders recently voted to strip BofA CEO Ken Lewis of his position as chairman of the board. The new chairman, Walter Massey, is heading up the committee that will revamp the bank's board...
...Bank of America and Citigroup are not alone in needing to make changes. At Wells Fargo, only four of that bank's 17 independent board members have a background in the financial-services industry. And even among that group, only two have been executives at a bank. Fifth Third Bancorp, which was deemed to need an additional $1.1 billion in capital in the government's recent stress test, has no independent directors on its board with prior experience working at a bank. Two of its board members do have financial-services experience, but with insurance companies. At JPMorgan Chase, none...
...busy doing recruiting for financial-services companies," says George Davis, who heads up the board practice at search firm Egon Zehnder...
Traditionally, banking experience was never a major criterion for becoming a board member at the nation's largest financial-services firms. Banks and other financial-services firms have long filled their boards with nonfinancial executives, be they industrial chiefs, heads of nonprofits or professors. That's been changing in recent years, especially with the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, which sought to strengthen corporate boards. But apparently the changes have not gone far enough. (See pictures of the stock market crash...
...part of the recent stress tests, regulators said they plan to review the boards of the nation's largest banks. The 10 banks that were deemed in the test to not have enough capital were given until June 8 to present Treasury with a plan for how they will raise the required funds. Besides reviewing the plans, government officials have said they plan to weigh in on whether they think the banks' leadership is adequate as well. One of the main factors the government will reportedly be looking at is whether the banks have a sufficiently deep bench of financially...