Commercial banking

The top three countries have 861 combined fintech financings through June 2023.

The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan came in a securities fraud lawsuit brought by a trustee for note purchasers in a 2014 syndicated loan deal led by JPMorgan Chase.

UBS Group AG is expected to announce soon that it's fully integrating Credit Suisse's domestic bank, ending months of speculation about the future of the business.

East West Bancorp chief Dominic Ng long faced skepticism from analysts who had questioned his conservative approach to capital allocations — a strategy that has helped his Pasadena-based bank weather decades of ups and downs in the banking industry and survive amid the collapse of other California banks this spring.

The country's Big Six banks are seen as likely to continue struggling as they contend with deteriorating consumer finances and rising internal costs.

Many depositors have "shifted their funds into higher-interest-bearing accounts, increasing banks' funding costs," S&P wrote in a note summarizing the moves.

The Pittsburgh company has tapped the U.S. blue-chip bond market for the second time since the banking crisis in the spring. Companies are hurriedly raising capital before the cyclical summer slowdown that typically kicks in toward the end of August.

UBS Group AG decided to end an agreement with the Swiss government to cover losses it could incur from the rescue of Credit Suisse, a sign that the mammoth integration is on track and the stricken lender's assets might be less troublesome than initially feared.

Firms that had ratings cut included M&T Bank, Webster Financial, BOK Financial, Old National Bancorp, Pinnacle Financial Partners and Fulton Financial.

The acquisition of Silicon Valley Bank helped push the bank's capital ratio to 13.4% in the second quarter, above its target range. But First Citizens said it would focus on absorbing SVB, and assess the impact of new capital rules, before restarting buybacks.