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The Taco theory of Trump's trade policy is cold comfort to banks

1 day ago | americanbanker.com | Ebrima Sanneh

President Donald Trump's trade policy injected volatility into markets earlier this spring, but some Wall Street investors have become skeptical of whether the most drastic tariffs proposed will materialize. But even as investors become more comfortable with the president's negotiating style, the absence of certainty is keeping banks from following through on strategic moves like M&A.
Wells shed its asset cap - but it isn't clear why

2 days ago | americanbanker.com | Kyle Campbell

In 2018, the Federal Reserve Board's total growth restriction on Wells Fargo established a new tool for dealing with large banks with broken compliance cultures. Many in and around the banking space viewed the $1.95 trillion asset cap — imposed in response to Wells Fargo's cross-selling and fake accounts scandals — as a high-water mark for regulatory enforcement, one they believed would inform how regulators administer similar penalties moving forward.
JPMorgan hands more duties to Lake, seen as a CEO contender

2 days ago | americanbanker.com | Aisha Gani

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is putting Marianne Lake, one of the leading contenders to one day take over for Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, in charge of strategic growth and the firm's fast-growing overseas consumer bank. The appointment follows the departure of Sanoke Viswanathan, who's leaving to become CEO of the data company FactSet, according to a memo to staff seen by Bloomberg News.
As Treasury market is poised to grow, fragilities mount

2 days ago | americanbanker.com | Kyle Campbell

For the past five years, the Treasury market has been a point of concern for financial regulators, market participants, academics and other observers. Earlier this spring, it looked to many like those fears might come to a head. On April 2, President Donald Trump rolled out new tariffs on virtually every country in the world, including prohibitively high levies against Chinese imports.
Wells Fargo sheds asset cap, ending seven years of handcuffs

3 days ago | americanbanker.com | Catherine Leffert |Kyle Campbell

This story is developing. Check back here for updates. Wells Fargo has finally broken free from the regulatory shackles that have constricted its growth for more than seven years. The Federal Reserve announced Tuesday that it has lifted the $1.95 trillion asset cap it imposed on Wells in 2018. The order's termination is a watershed event for a megabank long plagued by scandal, as it gains newfound flexibility to expand services and products.
FDIC's Hill criticizes Biden-era approach to bank mergers

3 days ago | americanbanker.com | Ebrima Sanneh

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration had a "misguided" hostility toward mergers overall that affected bank deals, acting Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chair Travis Hill said Tuesday. That antipathy "was premised on a couple of a couple of things, one being the perception that four banks was leading to a lack of competition in banking," Hill said at a fireside chat at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Capital Markets Forum.
Mich. bank embraces business once seen as an ugly stepchild

3 days ago | americanbanker.com | John Reosti

A Detroit-area community bank is building out a two-year-old subsidiary that its CEO sees as offering a counterweight to traditional commercial lending. The $824 million-asset Oxford Bank Corp. launched Oxford Commercial Finance in 2023. The unit provides factoring, asset-based lending, leasing and term loans to businesses that aren't a good fit for conventional bank loans.
Trump OCC eyes lighter capital rules to boost lending

3 days ago | americanbanker.com | Ebrima Sanneh

WASHINGTON — Acting Comptroller of the Currency Rodney Hood confirmed that the Trump administration plans to revise capital requirements for banks, aiming to ease what he described as excessive regulations that could constrain credit. The remarks, delivered to a crowd at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Capital Markets Forum, signaled a deregulatory shift focused on loosening constraints in any new rules while preserving financial stability.
Why smaller bank CEOs got bigger pay hikes in 2024

4 days ago | americanbanker.com | Nathan Place

For bank CEOs last year, the pay raises were bigger at the smaller institutions. In 2024, chief executives at banks with between $10 billion and $50 billion of assets got an average pay bump of 24.1%, according to a study of 59 banks by Compensation Advisory Partners. That was almost double the rate at banks with more than $50 billion of assets. The average raise for the CEOs of those larger banks was 12.4%.
Former Fed vice chair Stanley Fischer Dies at 81

4 days ago | americanbanker.com | Laurence Arnold |Alisa Odenheimer

(Bloomberg) — Stanley Fischer, a professor and practitioner of macroeconomics who helped guide central banks in two countries, Israel and the US, and mentored a younger generation of economic decision-makers, has died. He was 81. He died on Saturday, the Bank of Israel said in a statement, expressing condolences.