Bloomberg A leading US banking regulator wants lenders to do more to manage their exposure to commercial real estate. As property lending accelerates, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — which oversees American banks alongside the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. — is actively monitoring banks’ stress tests and risk-management practices, Comptroller Thomas ...

  Bloomberg At first glance, it’s hard to find much new to worry about in JPMorgan Chase’s second-quarter earnings report. Most of the important numbers beat estimates, although those estimates dropped like crazy before the report as the outlook for interest rates this year went from lower-for-not-much-longer to lower-for-who-knows-maybe-forever. Still, loan growth was robust and credit quality trends appeared to ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May will make the case for Britain remaining a powerful player in the world after last month’s vote to leave the EU. The premier will use her first appearance in parliament since succeeding David Cameron to argue for renewing the Trident nuclear-weapons system after a weekend in which the team overseeing the divorce from the ...