The top five community banks averaged a return on average equity of 75.37% as of June 30, 2023.

Bank CEOs are eyeing a near-term peak in deposit costs as the Fed perhaps moves closer to cutting interest rates. But the pressures they've faced this year as depositors ask for more compensation may not die down right away.

Five large U.S. banks are among 50 global financial institutions that climate activists are targeting as they push to end financing of metallurgical coal projects.

JPMorgan Chase is running into some pushback over fees and control as it aims to pull together a group of lenders to help fund private credit deals it originates, according to people with direct knowledge of the discussions.

Once the pace of private equity-backed sales of middle-market companies picks up, the Rhode Island-based bank expects to benefit. CEO Bruce Van Saun says that Citizens' recent expansions in private banking and wealth management will provide opportunities to cross-sell to corporate clients.

The Ohio-based regional bank has laid out an ambitious expansion blueprint, including new health care asset-based lending, a Native American financial services unit and a push into commercial banking in North Carolina and South Carolina.

The megabank, which is in the midst of a massive restructuring, will probably book "a couple of hundred million dollars" of restructuring charges in the fourth quarter, according to its chief financial officer.