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Tag: Commercial Banking
over 1 year ago
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Biden’s Bank Overseer OCC Nominee Faces Difficult Confirmation Dance

The Biden administration’s pick for comptroller of the currency, law professor Saule Omarova, says her criticism of t...

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over 1 year ago
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Credit Suisse Plans a Cultural Revolution

Getting the right balance between risk management and entrepreneurial spirit won’t be easy for the bank’s new chairma...

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over 1 year ago
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Barclays Sheds Jeffrey Epstein Ties With New CEO, Keeps Wall Street Strategy

Jes Staley is gone from Barclays, but his successor will carry on his signature strategy of betting big on the U.K.’s...

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over 1 year ago
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Mortgage Bond Sales Surged in October

Mortgage companies issued $21 billion of mortgage-backed bonds in October, the second heaviest month of borrowing sin...

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over 1 year ago
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Barclays’s New CEO Faces Old Challenges

Jes Staley did what he came to do, but successor C.S. Venkatakrishnan will still need to solve the long-running conun...

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over 1 year ago
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JPMorgan’s $30 Billion Racial Equity Pledge, One Year Later

The bank says it has committed $13 billion in loans and spending, with the bulk going to affordable housing.

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over 1 year ago
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UBS Stock Is a Bargain

Recent results have been good from UBS but despite consistent delivery, its shares trade just slightly above tangible...

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over 1 year ago
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Evergrande Doesn’t Cloud HSBC’s Sunny Forecast

The bank’s $2 billion buyback shows its confidence that it will capture Asian growth and be insulated from any Evergr...

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over 1 year ago
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Credit Suisse to Pay $475 Million, Admits Defrauding Investors to Settle Mozambique Charges

Company agreed to pay $475 million and forgive $200 million Mozambique owes to investors in coordinated settlements w...

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over 1 year ago
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Goldman Sachs Profit Rises on Deal Bonanza

The Wall Street bank said third-quarter profit jumped 60% to $5.38 billion as its investment bankers had their second...

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over 1 year ago
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JPMorgan Profit Jumps on Reserve Release

The bank freed up $2.1 billion it had set aside for bad loans. Revenue was essentially flat at $29.65 billion.

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over 1 year ago
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Columbia Banking, Umpqua Bank to Merge in $5 Billion Deal

The combined entity will boast more than $50 billion in assets and creates one of the largest banks with headquarters...

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over 1 year ago
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The Pandemic’s Over for Big Banks. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Bank profits are expected to plateau, exposing weak growth in banks’ core businesses.

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over 1 year ago
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WSJ News Exclusive | Google Is Scrapping Its Plan to Offer Bank Accounts to Users

The tech giant had joined with Citigroup and other banks on “Plex” accounts that would sync with Google Pay.

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over 1 year ago
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Evergrande to Raise $1.5 Billion by Selling Bank Stake to State-Owned Firm

China Evergrande plans to raise about $1.5 billion by selling most of its minority stake in a Chinese bank to a state...

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over 1 year ago
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Bank Mergers Are On Track to Hit Their Highest Level Since the Financial Crisis

Deals totaling more than $54 billion have been announced this year, up from about $17 billion at this time last year.

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over 1 year ago
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Derby’s Take: Trading Controversy Puts Focus on Calls for Structural Changes at Fed

Recently disclosed market activity of two Fed regional bank leaders has not only spurred calls for new restrictions o...

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over 1 year ago
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U.S. Bancorp to Buy MUFG Union Bank for About $8 Billion

The deal, in which U.S. Bancorp will buy MUFG Union Bank’s core regional banking franchise for about $8 billion in ca...

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over 1 year ago
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China’s Property Curbs Send Economic Tremors

Beijing’s pressure on the real-estate sector is being widely felt, raising questions about how much economic pain Chi...

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over 1 year ago
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WSJ News Exclusive | JPMorgan Chases the Online Investing Boom With Senior Hires

The bank is adding two executives to reinvigorate its online investing platforms, which lagged behind rivals during t...

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over 1 year ago
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Goldman Hires Former McKinsey Chief to Help Run Asia Business

Kevin Sneader will serve as Asia co-president alongside Todd Leland.

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over 1 year ago
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For Afghans Abroad, Sending Money Home Is Harder Than Ever

Disruptions in Afghanistan’s money-moving apparatus are choking off a key source of income for ordinary Afghans.

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over 1 year ago
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Crypto Firms Want Fed Payment Systems Access—and Banks Are Resisting

Efforts by the new breed of financial entities, if successful, could create more competition for traditional banks.

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over 1 year ago
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The Regulators Are Coming After Sustainable Investing

A U.S. investigation into Deutsche Bank’s asset manager DWS is an important first step in the crackdown on ethical-in...

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over 1 year ago
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U.S. Banks and Money-Transfer Firms Tread Carefully in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan

Two major U.S. money-transfer services have suspended payments into Afghanistan, and American banks are more closely ...

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over 1 year ago
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Companies Are Hoarding Record Cash Amid Delta Fears

Cash and short-term investments on corporate balance sheets rose in the second quarter.

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over 1 year ago
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Citigroup Reaches First Deal of Jane Fraser’s Refresh, Selling Australian Consumer Bank

NAB, one of the four dominant banks in Australia, will pay Citigroup about $184 million for its book of consumer mort...

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over 1 year ago
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WSJ News Exclusive | Jefferies Raises Junior Pay to Match Goldman Sachs at Top of Wall Street

The bank’s first-year analysts in the U.S. will now make $110,000, up from $85,000.

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over 1 year ago
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Businesses Are Loading Up on Credit. Spending Could Follow.

At JPMorgan and Bank of America, undrawn credit commitments total nearly $1 trillion, a 20% increase from a year ago.

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over 1 year ago
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Credit Suisse Needs to Make Bold Changes

The bank’s Archegos position is finally cleared, but more needs to be done to persuade investors that the lender is o...

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over 1 year ago
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Citizens Financial to Buy Investors Bancorp in $3.5 Billion Deal

Citizens, based in Providence, R.I., said it would pay 0.297 share and $1.46 in cash for each share of New Jersey-bas...

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over 1 year ago
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Europe’s Lenders Want to Grow Their Investment Banks Again

Keeping busy in capital markets has helped Barclays and Deutsche Bank deliver steady performances through the pandemi...

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over 1 year ago
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JPMorgan Awards Jamie Dimon Surprise Retention Bonus

The board of the largest U.S. bank gave its chief executive new stock options as a retention bonus, signaling that it...

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over 1 year ago
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How Is the Economy Doing? Here’s What Banks Say

Quarterly earnings from JPMorgan, Goldman and other big banks show an economy going strong. The question is, for how ...

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over 1 year ago
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Goldman, JPMorgan Power Ahead With Deal Making, Pushing Profits Higher

With markets calmer than a year ago, trading revenue fell at both firms. But investment bankers continued to turn in ...

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over 1 year ago
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JPMorgan Profit More Than Doubles, but Revenue Falls

The bank continued to free up money it had set aside last year to prepare for the Covid recession.

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over 1 year ago
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Banks Struggled Last Year, but Now They Are Set for Big Profits

JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and other big banks are expected to report large second-quarter gains this week, though tradi...

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over 1 year ago
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Biogen Alzheimer’s Drug Will Exceed the $56,000 List Price for Many, Analysis Says

Biogen based the annual price of the drug on a 163-pound patient. A healthcare researcher says many Alzheimer’s patie...

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over 1 year ago
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FDA Narrows Suggested Uses for New Alzheimer’s Drug

The agency recommended Aduhelm be prescribed only for patients in early stages of the disease, a move that could redu...

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