Netflix and Comcast among companies donating to LA wildfire relief

Netflix and Comcast among companies donating to LA wildfire relief

Evacuees from the Eaton fire look through boxes of clothes at a donation center in Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California, Jan. 13, 2025. Etienne Laurent | AFP | Getty Images As Los... Read more »
Michael Barr to step down as the Fed’s head of banking supervision to avoid clash with Trump

Michael Barr to step down as the Fed’s head of banking supervision to avoid clash with Trump

The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator will be stepping down next month, paving the way for President-elect Donald Trump to name a replacement and heading off a potential confrontation between the two.... Read more »
UniCredit offers to buy rival Italian lender Banco BPM for .5 billion

UniCredit offers to buy rival Italian lender Banco BPM for $10.5 billion

A logo on the UniCredit SpA headquarters in Milan, Italy, on Saturday Jan. 22, 2022. Bloomberg | Getty Images Italian lender UniCredit on Monday offered to snap up its domestic rival Banco... Read more »
CFPB expands oversight of Apple Pay, other digital payments services

CFPB expands oversight of Apple Pay, other digital payments services

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday issued a finalized version of a rule saying it will soon supervise nonbank firms that offer financial services likes payments and wallet apps. Tech giants... Read more »
Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish

Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish

Oscar Wong | Moment | Getty Images For 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family. When she and her... Read more »
Federal Reserve cuts rates after election. What that means for you

Federal Reserve cuts rates after election. What that means for you

The Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C. Joshua Roberts | Reuters The Federal Reserve announced Thursday that it will lower its benchmark rate by a quarter point, or 25 basis points, less... Read more »
Swiss deflation fears rise as strong franc tests central bank’s policy options

Swiss deflation fears rise as strong franc tests central bank’s policy options

Switzerland may be edging closer to deflation as the Swiss franc’s strength continues to weigh on policymakers’ efforts to maintain stable prices. With the franc rallying near record highs, the Swiss National... Read more »
After rejecting Google takeover, Wiz says will IPO when ‘stars align’

After rejecting Google takeover, Wiz says will IPO when ‘stars align’

LONDON — Cybersecurity firm Wiz is seeking to hit $1 billion of annual recurring revenues next year, the company’s billionaire co-founder Roy Reznik told CNBC, adding that the firm will go public... Read more »
Morgan Stanley (MS) earnings Q3 2024

Morgan Stanley (MS) earnings Q3 2024

Morgan Stanley on Wednesday topped analysts’ estimates for third-quarter profit as each of its three main divisions generated more revenue than expected. Here’s what the company reported: Earnings:$1.88 a share vs $1.58... Read more »
Goldman Sachs (GS) earnings Q3 2024

Goldman Sachs (GS) earnings Q3 2024

David Solomon, Chairman & CEO Goldman Sachs, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 17th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBC Goldman Sachs... Read more »
Trump or Harris? 2024 stakes for America’s businesses

Trump or Harris? 2024 stakes for America’s businesses

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris face off in the ABC presidential debate on Sept. 10, 2024. Getty Images With the U.S. election less than a month away, the... Read more »
JPM’s Dimon says geopolitical risks ‘treacherous and getting worse’

JPM’s Dimon says geopolitical risks ‘treacherous and getting worse’

JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 6,... Read more »
Banks Whip Out Checkbooks for Leveraged Buyouts as Rates Fall

Banks Whip Out Checkbooks for Leveraged Buyouts as Rates Fall

Investment banks, forced to take big writedowns on risky merger and acquisitions loans after a global surge in interest rates, are now jumping back into leveraged buyouts — one of the most... Read more »
JPMorgan Chase is prepared to sue the U.S. government over Zelle scams

JPMorgan Chase is prepared to sue the U.S. government over Zelle scams

JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon gestures as he speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington,... Read more »
DOJ accuses Visa of monopoly that affects price of ‘nearly everything’

DOJ accuses Visa of monopoly that affects price of ‘nearly everything’

Justin Sullivan | etty Images The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday sued Visa, the world’s biggest payments network, saying it propped up an illegal monopoly over debit payments by imposing “exclusionary” agreements... Read more »
Commerzbank board member warns of job losses with hostile UniCredit

Commerzbank board member warns of job losses with hostile UniCredit

15 February 2024, Hesse, Frankfurt/M.: The lettering “Commerzbank” can be seen on the Commerzbank Tower in the center of the banking city. Boosted by the turnaround in interest rates, Commerzbank is aiming... Read more »
What buying Commerzbank would mean for UniCredit and German banks

What buying Commerzbank would mean for UniCredit and German banks

The Commerzbank building (second from right) in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on Sept. 25, 2023. Kirill Kudryavtsev | Afp | Getty Images UniCredit‘s move to take a stake in German lender... Read more »
Jamie Dimon annual shareholder letter highlights AI potential

Jamie Dimon annual shareholder letter highlights AI potential

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, testifies during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled Annual Oversight of Wall Street Firms, in the Hart Building on Dec. 6, 2023.... Read more »
Why private equity has been involved in every recent bank deal

Why private equity has been involved in every recent bank deal

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell fist-bumps former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin after a House Financial Services Committee hearing on “Oversight of the Treasury Department’s and Federal Reserve’s Pandemic Response” in the Rayburn... Read more »