Fed Chair Jerome Powell outlined the steps that the Fed will take to ensure a “thorough and transparent” review of the recent merger during his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.
Read More »A New Bank Rises
The all-stock deal will create the sixth-largest bank in the U.S. Here are the details of the acquisition.
Read More »Mortgage Servicing Boost SunTrust’s Income
In its Q1 results, SunTrust Bank noted that higher mortgage-related income and investment-related income pushed the noninterest income up by $32 million. Mortgage servicing income posted a strong quarter, with a net income of $53 million over the previous quarter’s $25 million. Still, this was a decrease from the previous year’s Q1 income of $62 million.
Read More »SunTrust’s Q2 Profits Rise, Driven by Mortgage Income
Continuing a second quarter theme exhibited by many the country’s largest banks, revenue from the mortgage segment was largely responsible for improved earnings in Q2 for SunTrust.
Read More »Settlement Monitor Gives SunTrust Thumbs Up
How much consumer relief has SunTrust bank provided to distressed borrowers under the terms of the 2012 National Mortgage Settlement?
Read More »SunTrust’s Mortgage Servicing Income Skyrockets
The Atlanta-based bank is no longer burdened by legal matters and it showed in their 2015 fourth quarter and year-end earnings.
Read More »SunTrust Reports Q2 2015 Net Income of $467 Million; Comerica Totals $135 Million
SunTrust Banks, Inc. reported a net income increase of 14 percent to $467 million available to common shareholders, according to the bank’s Q2 2015 earnings statement released Friday. Comerica reported that their Q2 2015 earnings reached $135 million, or $0.73 cents per share in their earnings statement also released on Friday. Last quarter, the bank reported a net income of $134 million and $151 million for the Q2 2014.
Read More »Improved Assets Lead to Strong First Quarter for SunTrust
The Atlanta-based bank reported $411 million in net income, or 78 cents per share, which translates to a 7 percent increase over Q1 of 2014 and $33 million more than in Q4.
Read More »Servicers Report Q4 Consumer Relief To Settlement Monitor; Investigation of Ocwen Continues
Ocwen also reported that an additional 284,089 borrowers had either started a trial modification or were offered or approved for a trial modification by the end of Q4. These were Ocwen's self-reported numbers and they have not been credited by the monitor as of yet.
Read More »SunTrust to Pay North Carolina Homeowners $21.5 Million in Settlement
More than 2,200 homeowners who had mortgages with SunTrust and lost their homes to foreclosure in the past few years are eligible to a cash settlement worked out by the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office. North Carolina’s portion of the payout is about $21.5 million. Claim forms were mailed this week, and homeowners have until June 4 to submit a claim. The average payment will be around $850, according to Attorney General Roy Cooper.
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