Corporate finance

To help pull off the biggest media deal of the year, JPMorgan Chase embraced a Wall Street practice that fell out of favor after the financial crisis.

The Atlanta company reported a first-quarter revenue increase of 22%, and it has established a more aggressive target for the full year.

Freddie Mac will keep building on the financial reforms that produced profitability during conservatorship as broader government-sponsored enterprise proposals take shape, according to departing CEO Don Layton.

Fannie Mae is considering sharing more risk with the private sector to reduce future strain on its earnings from the implementation of the Current Expected Credit Loss accounting standard next year.

Mark Calabria, who could be confirmed as early as this month, is expected to focus on changes to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s conservatorships to let the mortgage giants keep more of their profits.

New Residential priced its second stock offering in four months, looking for gross proceeds of nearly $665 million.

The online consumer lender trimmed its losses in the fourth quarter and says an adjusted, non-GAAP metric suggests it's on the path to getting out of the red later this year.

Executives at Key pushed back against doubts over a deal for Laurel Road Bank’s digital lending platform so late in the credit cycle, arguing that its customers are prime borrowers with high incomes.

Citigroup's residential mortgage originations declined 23% and its home-loan revenue dropped by 35% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2018, as the company continued to distance itself from home loans.

While they won’t be in position to enact legislation, House Democrats could use their newfound power to spotlight issues that Republicans have largely ignored, including the exploding levels of corporate debt.