In 2025, Capital One Financial Corporation’s COF credit quality reflected both ongoing stress and some stabilization across its major lending portfolios. Early in the year, the company experienced ...

Private credit — direct lending to businesses outside the public bond markets — grew rapidly through the low-rate years of ...

Commercial banking company Preferred Bank (NASDAQ:PFBC) reported Q4 CY2025 results , with sales up 7.2% year on year to $78.07 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $2.79 per share was in line with analysts ...

Since the beginning of 2024 the ratio of positive to negative ratings actions appears to have declined, said Lisa Washburn, a managing director at Municipal Market Analytics, citing data from Standard ...

Lending profits and volumes have increased for a national network of agricultural lenders even as farmers have increasingly fallen behind on debt payments to member companies. The Farm Credit System, ...

BNDS is actively managed and deliberately credit-focused. Its prospectus allows holdings “of any credit quality,” including high-yield and even distressed bonds. Target sectors often include utilities ...

OppFi’s OPFI total net originations rose by 12.5% year over year during the third quarter of 2025. This metric improved 5.2% from the preceding quarter. This trajectory led toward improving the top ...

The credit quality of the high yield bond market has improved substantially since its inception, particularly after the Great Financial Crisis. The reason the fixed income markets have changed so much ...

M&T Bank reported fourth-quarter profits Friday that beat analysts' estimates by a wide margin, as the Buffalo, New York-based bank benefited from improved credit quality. Processing Content Net ...