Retail & Commercial

Executives at the Alabama-based bank said the aftermath of Nov. 5 will hopefully provide a sense of certainty that coaxes companies into jump-starting their strategic plans.

Though still feeling the effects of margin compression, the Columbus, Ohio-based company reported solid growth in loans and fee income and is projecting record spread income next year.

The Dallas bank has spent the last three years building itself into a new company. Now, it has to prove the investments will pay off.

The North Carolina-based company expects its revenue to outpace expenses next year — a goal that has proven elusive over the five years of Truist's existence.

The Buffalo, New York-based bank said its commercial real estate portfolio continued to shrink, but this was more than offset by business and consumer lending.

The Cleveland-based bank took a hit from a large bond sale, leading to a quarterly loss. But net interest income rose, and the company expects that metric to hit a key milestone in the fourth quarter.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. projected its Deposit Insurance Fund reserve ratio is expected to reach the statutory minimum of 1.35% by 2026 thanks to slower-than-expected insured deposit growth and a $7.5 billion increase in the DIF balance.

There is a tendency to assume that banks carrying a large commercial real estate loan portfolio need to diversify. But that ignores the fact that many of those institutions have much deeper knowledge of the market than their critics.

After NYCB streamlined its branch operations under the Flagstar name, the publicly traded company will begin trading under a new stock ticker symbol in late October.

The New York-based investment bank reported higher revenues across all business lines, with double-digit increases in wealth management and investment banking.