Telis Demos
Writer, Heard on the Street at The Wall Street Journal
Co-Host at Take On the Week
I write about Wall Street, banking and money for The Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
fnlondon.com | Telis Demos
Today’s Hot Banking Business Is Lending to LendersFinancing for nonbank firms is helping banks prop up loan growth and drive trading revenue Published April 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM ET Once again, banks are struggling to expand their loan books. But they have an ace up their sleeve: lending to nonbank lenders. Across several large, global, national and regional banks that have reported earnings so far, a common pattern is tepid loan growth.
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Nov 24, 2024 |
wsj.com | Jinjoo Lee |David Wainer |Telis Demos
Giving it a dramatic name like the “Manhattan Project” of our era and appointing wealthy men with social-media clout to take action won’t make freeing favored industries from regulation easy. Many of the Trump administration’s efforts to throw out or rewrite Washington’s rulebook might be challenged, fizzle or fail outright. A good way to handicap their odds is to look at how administrations have fared in the past.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
wsj.com | Telis Demos
Lenders are open for business. But there might not be a ton of borrowers walking through the door. That can be a formula for trouble. It should be a pretty good time to be lending money to people. Interest rates on credit cards have been at the highest levels since at least the 1990s, while the risk of card lending is subsiding. For the first time since 2021, the rate at which new delinquencies were forming actually declined in the third quarter from the prior quarter, according to the New York Fed.
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Nov 14, 2024 |
wsj.com | Telis Demos
Donald Trump’s election has unleashed big hopes for dealmaking, regulatory easing and private credit. All together, that would put some extra shine on the bank. Find out more:
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Nov 14, 2024 |
wsj.com | Telis Demos
Donald Trump’s election has unleashed big hopes in the market for dealmaking, regulatory easing and private credit. Together, all of that would put some extra shine on Goldman Sachs GS -1.00%decrease; red down pointing triangle. Goldman is the top-performer among global banks in the S&P 500 so far in November, up nearly 15%. That is well above S&P 500 banks, which are up around 9%, and on par with private investment firm Apollo Global Management’s gain this month. That may be no coincidence.
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