The FDIC's Quarterly Banking Profile was mostly good news for banks, showing higher profits and lower noncurrent loans, but loan growth remains a worry. Following is a detailed look at some of the insights into bank earnings.
Bank earnings leaped to $44 billion in the first quarter, a 12.7% increase from a year earlier, but loan growth marked its first quarterly slowdown since 2013.
Regulators have hinted that they're warming up to the idea of startups, but industry veteran George Groves is raising money to buy an existing bank because he fears the approval process will take too long.
The Trump administration’s examination of Dodd-Frank Act powers to allow regulators to seize and unwind a failing megabank is drawing criticism from supervisors at home and abroad.