Commercial lending

Comerica rides rate hikes to 15% revenue growth in 4Q

01/16/18

Apart from a one-time adjustment for deferred taxes, the Dallas company strong gains in net interest income and meaningful improvement in all of its key performance ratios.

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Music to investors’ ears: Banks will use tax cut to boost dividends

01/12/18

Executives of large banks told investors and analysts what they wanted to hear Friday when they said they plan to increase returns to shareholders.

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Equipment lending could take off under new tax structure

01/10/18

Banks that have flocked to the business because of higher yields and loan diversity stand to benefit if clients use tax savings to upgrade equipment.

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Meta Financial gains national lending platform with Crestmark deal

01/09/18

The payments company will pay $321 million for Crestmark Bank, a commercial lender that focuses on asset-based lending, equipment finance and government-guaranteed loans.

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Midland States in Ill. revamps equipment finance unit

01/09/18

The company tapped a new president for the business, which it will also rebrand, after hiring a team from Scottrade Bank in Missouri.

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United Community in Ga. to buy equipment finance firm

01/09/18

United will pay $130 million for NLFC Holdings, the parent company of Navitas Credit.

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Forget 4Q results. Tax cuts will dominate earnings chatter

01/05/18

Banks have been in full cost-cutting mode in recent years, but with profits expected to increase substantially as a result of tax reform, all analysts and investors want to know is how they plan to spend their tax savings.

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Five pivotal questions for banks in 2018

01/03/18

Changing political and economic forces are raising new questions about deployment of tax savings and the cost of deposits, while old concerns about cost-cutting, credit quality and risk taking persist or return.

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Ant, MoneyGram deal killed; Hatch to retire

01/03/18

The two payments companies failed to win U.S. government approval for their merger; the head of the Senate Finance Committee says he will leave when his term ends.

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Dime in N.Y. adds former GreenPoint executive to its board

01/02/18

Kevin Stein, who runs a private equity firm, has also supervised banking groups at Barclays and FBR Capital Markets.

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