along with five other Canadian banks for "conspiring to rig a Canadian rate benchmark to improve profits from derivatives trading". Setting a similar goal to competitors, in October 2018, the company had stated it wanted to attract 1 million new customers to its personal banking division over the following five years. BMO was the bank with the second-most deposits in Chicago by June 2018, with 11.5% market share. Also that month, its BMO Harris division was operating in eight states in the US. The Bank of Montreal had Can$743.6 billion of assets, and ranked among the top 10 North American banks in that status. In September 2018, the bank's CEO stated to the press the bank would have around $1 billion in earnings from their US operations that year. After resigning from the Canadian Liberal cabinet, Scott Brison was hired by the bank as its vice-chair of investment and corporate banking in February 2019. In February 2019, it became reported that its US retail profits had surged. The bank moved its New York City headquarters in April 2019, to a former Conde Nast building. That month, the bank's Irish subsidiary was fined several million for a license breach. To settle charges by the SEC that it hid conflicts of interest from clients in 2016, in September 2019 the Bank of Montreal's two units in Chicago paid $38 million. In December 2019, the bank cut 2,300 jobs, after a drop in quarterly earnings, effecting around five percent of the workforce. The company had plans to "double indigenous lending" in September 2019. There was controversy and protests in January 2020 after a Vancouver branch of the bank handcuffed a 12-year-old First Nations girl and her grandfather for an identification discrepancy. The Vancouver mayor criticized the bank for what he termed giving false information to the police. The police were afterwards investigated. In January 2020, BMO launched an Indigenous Advisory Council with Indigenous members from a number of provinces. The CEO of the bank argued against fossil fuel divestment in March 2020, after it "acquired $3 billion of energy loans from Deutsche Bank DBKGn.DE in 2018". In April 2020, the company stated it would temporarily cut credit card interest rates to ease the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clients. The company described accelerating its automation in August 2020. In 2021, BMO affirmed the need to reach global net-zero climate targets as well