JPMorgan Chase Insights

Left-leaning shareholder groups are asking JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and other large asset managers to explain a recent decline in their support for certain environmental and social policies at public companies.

JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and TD Auto Finance all see opportunities in providing financing to dealers for inventory, the purchase of competitors and the addition of infrastructure for electric vehicle sales. Two other banks recently said they're exiting the business, which could provide a further opening.

The largest U.S. bank by assets raised its forecast for net interest income in 2023 to $81 billion from $74 billion, a positive sign for investors wondering how an economic downturn might weigh on profits.

After a decade of multibillion-dollar tech investments by banks, efficiency ratios have begun to improve and headcounts drop, some industry watchers say. Skeptics counter that other reasons are at play and that it's all hard to measure.

Corporations are navigating shifting geopolitics, and M&A bankers are advising them as they consider selling off faraway units and focusing more on assets closer to home or in friendlier countries.

The deal is the seventh prime jumbo issuance from Chase Home Lending Mortgage Trust in 2025.

This could be the second year in a row that the market for U.S. bank preferred shares has shrunk, something that hasn't happened since the lenders were replacing obsolete capital after the global financial crisis.

After passing the Federal Reserve's stress tests with high marks, large banks announced dividend increases. In some cases, they also said the Fed had conceded that certain prior calculations needed to be revised.

One atypical feature, for an auto ABS deal, is that principal on the notes will be reduced in a reverse sequential order based on realized losses.

Renewed expectations that the Federal Reserve could start cutting interest rates as soon as next month supported gains in the bond market.