Ally Financial reported Wednesday (July 17) that its net charge-offs (NCOs) in the second quarter rose in comparison to the same quarter a year earlier, due in part to losses from loans made when the price of cars peaked about two years ago. While its...
Bank earnings continue to show credit remains a key payments choice. U.S. Bancorp’s earnings, released Wednesday (July 17) indicated that within the company’s payment services segment, credit card payment volumes came in at $36.5 billion, up 4.6% year on year. The average loan balance, overall,...
In today’s uncertain environment, consumers want one thing: choice. That’s because macroeconomic uncertainty over inflation and interest rates is rocking consumer behavior and affecting big-ticket spend across verticals like home, auto and more, leading consumers to scale back on nonessential retail purchases. But as Synchrony...
PNC Financial Services Group saw expected increases in total nonperforming loans and net loan charge-offs in the second quarter. The increases were primarily due to high commercial nonperforming loans and higher commercial real estate (CRE) net loan charge-offs, the bank said in a Tuesday (July...
For Bank of America, digital channels have represented avenues of continued growth, making inroads with credit card spending in particular. According to management, there’s still room left for consumers to keep spending on those cards. The company said in a second-quarter 2024 earnings release that...
In February, UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s Change Healthcare unit suffered a far-reaching cyberattack. Per remarks by UnitedHealth’s executives on Tuesday’s (July 16) second-quarter earnings call, the impact of the Change Healthcare attack is still ongoing, with its related costs continuing to snowball to over a billion...
Get enough data points in place, and you have a trend. As bank earnings have started to roll in — thus far, from JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and Citigroup — management commentary and earnings supplementals reveal a bit of a mixed picture on spending and credit...
Goldman Sachs’ GreenSky sale is in the rearview mirror and its pivot from Main Street banking is ongoing. Its latest earnings results, released Monday (July 15), show that “substantially all” of the Marcus loans were sold a year ago. As PYMNTS reported earlier this year, independent...
Business travel at Delta Air Lines is surging, exceeding expectations with “mid-teens” growth, according to a Thursday (July 11) Q2 earnings transcript. Delta President Glen Hauenstein said during the call that Delta benefited from double-digit volume growth in this high-value segment with broad demand and...
