First Horizon National

Bankers hoped the tax overhaul would stimulate a boom in business borrowing, but several said this week that hasn’t happened yet. PNC’s Bill Demchak warned that the tax cuts could be encouraging lenders to underprice loans.

First Horizon CEO Bryan Jordan said the bank is still on track to meet cost-cutting targets from its November acquisition of Capital Bank in North Carolina.

Following its acquisition last November of Capital Bank in North Carolina, First Horizon will fund mortgage and small-business lending in low-income areas of the Southeast and expand its vendor relationships with minority-owned firms.

Buying Capital Bank Financial helped boost revenue by 17% in the fourth quarter, but one-time charges related to recent tax cuts dragged down the Memphis company's profits.

Online banks have been aggressively raising the rates they pay on consumer deposits, and that is forcing mainstream banks to consider following suit or risk losing valuable deposits to their more nimble competitors.

Flush with capital and facing stiff competition for customers, many regional banks appear to be mulling acquisitions to accelerate growth.

The Tennessee company reported 6% growth in loans, which included strong C&I and CRE grains. However, revenue shrank thanks partly to a steep falloff in fixed-income fees.

Third-quarter results from PNC, Bank of America, First Horizon and others suggest that demand for commercial loans may not be as weak as bankers and investors had feared. Or maybe some banks are just getting really good at poaching rivals’ customers.

The Tennessee bank said it has bought Professional Mortgage in Greenville, S.C., which services about $1.1 billion of commercial mortgage loans for 23 correspondent life company lenders.