JPMorgan Chase

Federal officials directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to study whether digital assets held on US regulated exchanges might someday be factored into mortgage risk assessments.

Strategic financing solutions will be a collaboration between banking, markets and sales, and will initially focus on services including structured private solutions, and strategic asset-backed securities finance.

The Mission Lane Credit Card Master Trust will raise $550 million in capital from securitized bonds, secured by a pool of Visa-branded credit card accounts that Transportation Alliance Bank and WebBank originated.

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.

In 2021, banks pledged to wind down their support for oil and gas. Last year they made a $162 billion U-turn, according to a new report from a coalition of advocacy groups.

The dollar bond would be the largest ever issued by SNB, Saudi Arabia's second-biggest bank by market capitalization.