August 2026 — page 14
Indivior and Supernus to Combine in All-Stock Merger of Equals
The combination would create a scaled central-nervous-system drugmaker with $2.2 billion in annual revenue and $125 million in expected cost savings.
Esquire Completes Signature Bancorporation Merger
The combination added a Chicago commercial-banking franchise to Esquire’s national litigation and payments businesses.
Dorchester Minerals to Acquire Williston Basin Royalty Interests in Unit Deal
Dorchester Minerals expanded its Williston Basin footprint through a non-cash exchange of common units for roughly 3,100 net royalty acres, adding to a wave of unit- and cash-funded mineral bolt-ons across the basin.
American Family to Buy Bowhead Specialty for $1.2 Billion in Cash
American Family's move to take full ownership of its longtime reinsurance partner Bowhead reunites an insurer with the specialty underwriter it helped launch six years ago.
Brookfield Completes Oaktree Acquisition in $3 Billion Cash-and-Stock Deal
The acquisition broadens Brookfield’s global credit platform and brings Oaktree’s underwriting capabilities fully inside the asset manager.
Prysmian to Buy Atkore in $3.8 Billion All-Cash Deal
The acquisition would broaden Prysmian’s electrical-products portfolio as infrastructure investment accelerates.
ING Lending Growth Anchors Full-Year Banking Results
Commercial net interest income totaled €4.060 billion as the commercial margin stood at 2.26%.
HSBC Interest Income Rises as Margin Compression Reverses
Full-year net interest income rose $2.1 billion to $34.8 billion as the margin expanded 3 bps.
Capital One Net Interest Income Rises 37% to $42.9 Billion
The credit-card-focused bank expanded its net interest margin by 96 bps to 7.84% for the full year.
Citigroup Investment Banking Fees Jump 20% as Full-Year Profit Climbs
Citigroup's full-year 2025 net income rose to $14.3 billion on revenue of $85.2 billion, up from $12.7 billion on $80.7 billion in 2024, as Banking and Markets carried the result.
Santander Brasil’s Credit Costs Reverse as Loan Growth Slows
Loan-loss allowances worsened 8.9% to R$25.88 billion in 2025 as household and corporate stress increased.
Groupe BPCE Reports €2.8 Billion in Net Interest Income
Retail-network margin recovery supported €2.8 billion of net interest income in the first quarter of 2026.
BNP Paribas Revenues Rise 4.9% on CIB and IPS Growth
Full-year revenues reached €51,223 million as the integration of AXA IM boosted investment and financial services results.
Barclays UK NIM Expansion Drives Net Interest Income Toward 2026 Goal
Group net interest income outside the investment bank and head office climbed 12% to £3.4 billion, with management pointing to guidance of more than £13.5 billion for the year.
BBVA Lending Lifted Net Interest Income 13.9%
Full-year net interest income reached €26.28 billion as lending activity supported currency-adjusted growth.
Bank of America NII Rises 10% to $15.8 Billion
The largest U.S. bank by assets returned $8.4 billion to shareholders in the final period of 2025.
Amex Card Fee Revenue Hits 30th Straight Quarter of Double-Digit Growth
American Express said net card fee revenue climbed 14% to $117 per card in 2025, anchoring a 10% rise in total revenue to $72.2 billion.
Crédit Agricole Accelerates Retail Lending as French Margins Recover
French and Italian retail-banking loans rose 1.7% to €895 billion as funding costs eased.
MPLX Maintains Regional Gas Transmission Footprint Across New Mexico and Oklahoma
The company's midstream operations focused on interstate transmission services through its MarkWest subsidiaries during the 2024 reporting cycle.
Genesis Energy Maintains Stable Operational Footprint Across 2024 Pipeline Portfolio
The midstream operator reported no significant regulatory or structural changes across its primary pipeline subsidiaries during the report year.
AES manages divergent asset profiles across Ohio and Indiana utilities
The company balanced a pure-purchase power model in Ohio against a steam-heavy generation fleet in Indiana.
CMS Updates Medicare Payment Rates for Skilled Nursing Facilities
New rules adjust fiscal year 2027 payment rates and modify quality reporting requirements for skilled nursing facilities.
Next-Gen Satellite Data Sharpens Solar Power Forecasting
A new hybrid neural network leverages higher-resolution imagery to improve surface solar irradiance estimates during cloudy weather.
Emergency Text Alerts Can Move the Needle on Energy Demand
High-frequency smart thermostat data shows that statewide emergency alerts successfully drove household energy conservation during a natural gas shortage.
Corporate Social Stances Drive Measurable Revenue Shifts
New transaction data shows that firm stances on social issues create persistent spending gains from aligned customers and losses from opponents.
New Framework for Optimizing Start-up Milestone Strategies
A new stochastic control model provides a mathematical basis for choosing venture activities based on risk-to-cost efficiency.
Information Lags and Social Herding Drive A-Share Volatility
A new agent-based model separates behavioral imitation from information diffusion to explain price overshooting and reversals in China's equity market.
Hybrid AI Pipeline Boosts Product Data Extraction
A new two-step validation method allows mid-size AI models to extract rare product attributes with the precision of much larger systems.
ML-Driven Gas Lift Optimization Boosts Unconventional Yields
A new automated workflow uses Bayesian optimization to increase production in unconventional fields without requiring expensive downhole hardware.
Dynamic Confidence Thresholds for Fail-Degraded AI Perception
A new design strategy allows autonomous systems to maintain safety in poor visibility by adjusting detection sensitivity based on real-time image quality.
New Analytic Method Speeds Up Compound Option Pricing
A Fourier cosine approach eliminates numerical quadrature in multi-stage options, improving efficiency for complex nested decisions.
Counterfactual Data Fixes B2B Propensity Modeling
A new framework replaces linear data augmentation with counterfactual explanations to better predict organizational buying cycles.
Hardware Costs Outweigh Gains for Learned Gating in AMC
New FPGA benchmarks show that adding learned feature gating to modulation classifiers increases logic and latency without improving accuracy.
New Correction Factors Fix Global Inequality Data Gaps
A massive new dataset of 122,351 Gini observations provides the tools to harmonize conflicting economic inequality measures across 222 countries.
New Benchmark Tests AI Speech Accuracy for Earnings Calls
Earnings25 provides a 500-hour dataset to measure how well speech-to-text models handle the specific jargon and structure of financial reporting.
New Outlier-Resistant Tools for Time Series Analysis
Three new estimators provide a computationally efficient way to measure autocorrelation in volatile financial and economic data without outlier distortion.
Short-term carbon price forecasts cut compliance costs
New research shows that optimizing the timing of allowance purchases can lower realized costs for firms in emissions trading systems.