Retail & Commercial

In a tough commercial real estate market, sellers are stepping up efforts to entice buyers before plummeting property values force them to accept deeper discounts. 

After Archegos' collapse, Nomura had lost almost $3 billion, one of the biggest losses in the history of the prime-broker industry that caters to investment funds.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Justice Department warned banks and other lenders that credit applicants cannot be rejected due to their immigration status.

The credit bureau is embedding its Experian Boost feature in the new account, which aims to help people strengthen their credit profiles through on-time bill payments.

Regulators should consider whether additional investor protections are needed for the fast-growing market, Caroline Crenshaw, an SEC commissioner, said in a speech Wednesday.

The job cuts came after CEO Bill Demchak said in July that he was "taking a hard look" at opportunities to reduce expenses. PNC joins a growing list of banks that have laid off workers amid declining growth prospects.

Jeffrey Brown, who's been Ally Financial's top executive for nearly nine years, plans to leave the company by early next year. His exit comes as deteriorating credit quality and rising interest rates are biting into Ally's profits.

With US banks facing a fresh wave of capital restrictions, some are searching for ways to trade out of risky loan portfolios and free up their balance sheets. The solution may very well lie with capital-rich lenders in the booming $1.5 trillion private credit market.

Goldman is offloading the lending platform less than two years after acquiring it as part of a broader retreat from the mass market.

The company now has 35 million users worldwide and launched new features this summer that include automated investing and expanded account access for non-citizens living in the U.S. But the features come amid controversies at the fintech.