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...Data from the British Bankers’ Association, now part of trade body UK Finance, and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows the number of UK bank branches fell from nearly 15,000 in the late 1980s...
...Wells Fargo bank analyst Mike Mayo said it made sense for banks with healthy levels of capital to return money to shareholders when profits were high....
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...Larger banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo also saw their profits fall in the final quarter of 2023....
...Despite this, in recent days executives from the country’s four largest banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo — said during earnings calls that consumers were resilient....
...Wells Fargo has partnered with asset manager Centerbridge to launch a $5bn private credit fund that will lend to midsized US companies, as banks race to find a toehold in the rapidly growing private credit...
...The stock is trading at near book value even as rival main street lenders like Citigroup, Bank of America and Truist Financial are trading below....
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...The US has eight G-SIBs: JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon, State Street and Wells Fargo....
...As well as, to be fair, many central banks, think-tanks, financial regulators and even the IMF....
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