Frontier Communications Parent Inc. has hired a new executive to take charge of its finances just weeks after the telecommunications company emerged from bankruptcy.

Coty Inc.’s finance chief Laurent Mercier is pruning the cosmetics company’s product portfolio, working to improve its forecasts and reducing inventory to increase profitability.

Finance chiefs at apparel retailers are working to reduce inventory levels, lower rent payments and rely less on promotions in an effort to increase profitability.

Some German auditors fear new legislation aimed at increasing audit quality would hurt competition and help the Big Four firms—Deloitte, Ernst & Young KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers—gain further market share.

More Black, Asian and Latino executives are getting to pick and choose their finance jobs, as companies look to boost diversity in their leadership teams amid heightened public awareness about racial inequality in the U.S.

Delta Air Lines recruited a General Electric executive to lead its finances following the departure of its longtime finance chief last year.

Scott Hill helped lead dozens of acquisitions during his more than 14 years as finance chief of ICE. I spoke to him about the changing role of the CFO, integrating targets and the impact of Covid-19 on the mortgage market.

L Brands named finance chiefs for its Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works businesses ahead of the planned separation into two publicly traded companies later this year.

EBay is turning to the finance chief of JetBlue Airways to oversee its finances, ending a search that began over a year ago.

AT&T’s shares declined and bond prices rose Monday after the telecommunications firm and Discovery said they plan to combine their media assets into a new publicly traded company.