Key insight: Citi’s fourth-quarter net income fell 13% year over year, in connection with its pending exit from Russia. What’s at stake: Overall, the New York-based megabank reported strong results for 2025, including full-year revenue of $85.2 billion, the highest annual total since Jane Fraser was named CEO in 2021. Forward look: The bank reaffirmed […]
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Key insight: The deal is expected to create a $23 billion-asset company with operations focused around New Jersey and New York. What’s at stake: OceanFirst is vowing to reduce its commercial real-estate concentration, which was already hefty and will grow larger following the completion of the Flushing transaction. Forward look: Warburg Pincus will make a
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Key insight: Flagstar logged another quarterly loss, though one that was smaller than in earlier quarters this year. Supporting data: The bank’s third-quarter net loss was $45 million. Forward look: Observers are focused on when the Long Island bank, which was battling for its survival last year, will return to profitability. UPDATE: This article includes
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Key insight: Truist Financial reported third-quarter earnings Friday, with earnings per share that beat analysts’ estimates. Forward look: The regional bank expects full-year 2025 expenses to rise about 1% compared with the prior year. Supporting data: Wealth management fees rose 6.9% year over year. Truist Financial exceeded Wall Street expectations for third-quarter earnings, with a
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Key Insight: Bank of America’s revised-up guidance for net interest income comes partly thanks to an improving macroeconomic environment. Supporting Data: BofA’s NII guidance for the fourth quarter is now $15.6 billion to $15.7 billion, up from $15.5 billion to $15.7 billion. Expert Quote: “As we’ve seen more certainty now around trade and tariffs …
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Key insight: Citi is turning a corner on profitability, CEO Jane Fraser said. Forward look: The company plans to disclose future profitability metrics in May. Expert quote: “The best part is, there is much more upside ahead,” Fraser said. UPDATE: This article includes comments made during Citigroup’s earnings call as well as commentary from a
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Key Insight: The deal marks the largest bank acquisition announcement of 2025, and Fifth Third’s first since 2019. What’s at Stake: Comerica had been facing calls from an activist investor to sell itself for months, though CEO Curt Farmer said that the external pressure wasn’t a factor. Supporting Data: When completed, the deal will create
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Bing Guan/Bloomberg Flagstar Financial’s profitability challenges extended into yet another quarter, with the company reporting a net loss, though executives remain optimistic about a near-term financial turnaround. On Friday, the parent company of Flagstar Bank reported a second-quarter net loss of $70 million, or $0.19 per share, exceeding the consensus net loss estimate of $0.14
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UPDATE: This article includes comments made during Bank of America’s earnings call and comments from an analyst’s note. Bank of America may find opportunities to make small, non-bank acquisitions, but for now it plans to keep directing excess capital into organic growth, CEO Brian Moynihan said Wednesday. The $2.4 trillion-asset financial giant — which, like
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A Mediterranean Shipping Co. container ship under construction at the HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, on March 30, 2025.SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff proposals have been put on hold for another month, giving banks and industries more time to brace for impact while also prolonging the uncertainty that
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