Retail & Commercial

It's been a rocky few years for senior housing as the sector recovers from its COVID occupancy drop and its profitability takes a hit. But bankers see long-term opportunities amid an aging U.S. population and say their portfolios are healthy.

Mark Smith, most recently head of the firm's treasury and trade solutions division in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will take on the treasurer role on an interim basis. 

The deal, first announced in September 2022, would have given Taichung Commercial Bancorp a foothold in several U.S. markets.

The biggest U.S. bank is selling green bonds for the first time in over two years as sales of the debt accelerate at a record pace. 

While the latest change applies specifically to COVID forbearances, the agency is looking at more options for alternatives that can be offered on a regular basis, Director Sandra Thompson said.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has mandated banks to sell dollar-denominated additional tier 1 bonds, in what looks set to be the first such offering in the U.S. currency by any Japanese lender. 

The Westlake, Texas, firm said deposits fell 28% to $284.4 billion in the third quarter from the year prior, beating the $268.8 billion average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.

The issuances may be driven by the companies' needs to meet their total loss-absorbing capacity requirements, which require banks to hold a certain amount of debt at the level of their holding companies that can be converted to equity in an emergency.

The simple act of disclosing their sensitivity to interest rate changes would bring market discipline to the banking industry's choices about interest rate risk.

The longtime Most Powerful Women in Banking honoree looks back on her four-decade career and how the industry has changed for women.