Corporate finance

A tempered forecast overshadowed solid second-quarter results at the North Carolina regional bank.

The Cleveland company reported higher investment banking income and kept many expense items in check during the second quarter.

The agency creates “regulatory sandbox” to help develop products, including crypto-based ones; FSOC agrees bank’s failure wouldn’t wreck the financial system.

Rural Alaskans, including Native Americans living in the mountains, may not have access to traditional banks. But they aren't exactly living off the grid.

The Dallas bank reported sizable growth in business and mortgage lending in the second quarter, but it more than doubled its provision for loan losses to cover four credits that went into nonaccrual status.

Analysts had expected the New York-based firm to boost its forecast as consumers increased spending on its cards.

Repayments on acquired residential mortgage loans were the main reason, but other bottom-line boosters more than made up for that, the Buffalo, N.Y., bank said in reporting second-quarter results.

The big custody bank's fees surged on new business gained from its deal for UBS business units in Europe.

The Minnesota company's profits rose by double digits despite some challenges in the second quarter, and its CEO says it will be expanding its digital offerings to simplify banking for customers.

The Mississippi company said it has recorded most of the expected charge-offs tied to the last severe decline in oil prices.

Goldman’s new CEO is expected to instill more corporate discipline; second quarter earnings jumped nearly 40% compared to a year earlier on higher revenues.

Comerica faced aggressive questioning Tuesday about how it could use freed-up capital now that it’s no longer considered a systemically important financial institution. It won’t be the last small regional to get such a grilling this earnings season.

The Los Angeles company's second-quarter profit also benefited from last fall's purchase of CU Bancorp.

Declines in corporate banking and energy loans were part of the reason loan growth was light, but the Dallas bank reported strong earnings thanks heavily to fatter margins.

One-time items included $43.2 million of second-quarter expenses related to the Capital Bank acquisition, but First Horizon executives forecast sizable savings from the deal.

David Solomon is officially named as Blankfein’s successor; the British bank is under pressure from an activist shareholder to boost its stock price.

Bank of America’s consumer loans grew a lot. But its rivals? Not so much. The mixed results raise questions about whether BofA’s performance is a leading or trailing indicator, and if credit quality is going to be more of a problem industrywide.

Loans in that business climbed 6.6% compared with a year earlier as Bank of America's overall profits rose by 33%.

Succession plan could be formalized this week; bankers may be getting nervous about extending construction loans.

The struggling Frankfurt-based bank expects to report net income of $468 million when it issues second-quarter results nine days from now, but it's unclear exactly where the earnings beat is coming from and whether the performance is sustainable.