JPMorgan Chase

The bank, which plans to host an investor day next month, didn’t provide any annual targets for 2019. The company said it expects net interest income to be little changed in the first quarter.

Walter V. Shipley, the former chairman and chief executive who led the friendly merger of Chemical Banking with Chase Manhattan to create the biggest U.S. bank and predecessor of what is now JPMorgan Chase, has died. He was 83.

Saul Van Beurden will have oversight of both technology and information security and will report to CEO Tim Sloan.

There had been a cascade in recent days of downgrades and other negative forecasts in connection with big banks, but some analysts on Wednesday picked up the industry's argument that fundamentals are stronger than the markets are giving banks credit for.

CEOs on the hot seat. Banks fighting to stay independent. Comfortable players ripe for disruption from Amazon and others. It is shaping up as a riveting year.

Automating the loan application process is a potentially game-changing development that could put more car shoppers in control of which bank or credit union finances their purchase.

Two trends — competition from challenger banks and the emergence of real-time payments — threaten to eat away at the fees banks collect on overdrafts and bounced checks.

The technology does not yet exist, but in the not-too-distant future it could fundamentally transform how many organizations do business.

JPMorgan Chase’s planned expansion into more than a dozen new markets threatens community banks and larger institutions alike.

Readers this year responded to Mick Mulvaney's leadership at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the banking industry's role in the national gun debate, Rep. Maxine Waters' upcoming leadership of the Financial Services Committee, the influence of tech companies like Facebook and Amazon on financial services and much more.