New York – September 11, 2026 -- Monteverde & Associates PC has opened an investigation into WaFd, Inc. (NASDAQ: WAFD) over the fairness of its proposed merger with EverBank Financial Corp., under which WaFd shareholders would retain approximately 40.825% ownership of the combined company.

Panama City – September 11, 2026 -- Bladex, Inc. (NYSE: BLX) placed MXN 5.0 billion in long-term Mexican notes (Cebures) in Mexico's public debt market, drawing orders of MXN 7.779 billion, 1.56 times the amount offered, and allowing the bank to fill its full authorized issuance.

Three-year floating-rate notes price at TIIE de Fondeo plus 58 basis points

The notes carry a three-year maturity and float against Mexico's one-business-day Interbank Equilibrium Interest Rate (TIIE de Fondeo), plus a spread of 58 basis points.

Rockville, Md. – September 11, 2026 -- Expert.ai has been named one of five Coolest Vendors in Gartner's Coolest Vendor Innovations in Agentic AI for Banking, Part 1 report, published August 26, 2026.

Pittsburgh – September 11, 2026 -- PNC Bank has launched PNC Workplace Advantage, a workplace banking program targeting employers with 100 or more employees that seeks to boost benefits offerings without adding administrative burden.

Everett, Washington – September 10, 2026 -- Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP has opened a securities fraud investigation into Coastal Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:CCB) after the bank's stock plunged 43.5% following disclosure of a massive credit loss tied to its banking-as-a-service partnerships.

Coastal Financial's stock collapsed 43.5% in a single trading session on July 30, 2026

Shares fell $30.75, from a close of $70.66 on July 29, 2026, to $39.91 the following day, after the company released Q2 2026 results.

Shanghai – September 10, 2026 -- China Merchants Bank has won the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF) End User Case Study Contest after lifting average accelerator utilization from 35% to more than 60% and cutting inference cost per 1 million tokens by over 60%.

Jacksonville and Seattle – September 10, 2026 -- EverBank Financial Corp and WaFd, Inc. (NASDAQ: WAFD) have entered into a definitive merger agreement valuing the combination at $3.9 billion, creating a nationwide bank with more than 250 financial centers.

San Francisco – September 10, 2026 -- Hagens Berman has filed a securities fraud class action against HDFC Bank Limited (NYSE: HDB), alleging the lender concealed roughly Rs 45 crore (about $4.7 million) in disguised payments to a state-owned firm to secure large deposits.

Bochum – – September 09, 2026 -- GLS Bank board member Aysel Osmanoglu has issued a public statement following an unexpectedly strong result for the far-right AfD in Saxony-Anhalt's state election, warning that the outcome puts fundamental societal achievements and democracy itself at risk.

Frankfurt am Main – September 07, 2026 -- Germany is the only major European banking market where non-performing loans (NPLs) are rising again, with the stock of bad debt at German banks climbing 87% between 2019 and 2025, according to a new BearingPoint study covering 216 European banks over a 13-year period.

The increase runs counter to the broader European trend: most markets across the continent continued to reduce problem loans over the same period, even as the sector-wide average NPL ratio fell to 1.9%.