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Priya Nair
Finance Reporter
Writes on banks, private credit, and the regulatory perimeter around nonbank lenders.
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Nike co-founder Phil Knight pledges $1.1 billion to Providence St. Vincent Medical CenterFinance
Jim Cramer highlights jarring gulf between retail stock prices and consumer realityFinance
Why American brands like Nike, Starbucks, and GM are losing ground in ChinaFinance
Inside Coca-Cola's innovation labs: Automating dirty sodas and refreshers for quick-service chainsFinance
Dick’s Sporting Goods suffers historic 30% drop as Cramer urges patienceFinance
Best Buy raises fiscal-year outlook after earnings beat, but stock fallsFinance
Affirm CEO Max Levchin warns high gas prices are pinching U.S. shoppersFinance
Trump-promoted Freedom Fuel stations sold gas a distributor says went unpaid forFinance
Retailers split on tariff refund strategies in earnings reports, per CNBC RetailFinance
Livestream shopping gains U.S. traction via TikTok and WhatnotFinance
Five Below stock undervalued by Wall Street after beat-and-raise quarter, says CramerFinance
Lululemon stock plunges 20% on disappointing earnings and soft outlookFinance
AI reshapes back-to-school shopping as Amazon and Google capture consumer intentFinance
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol says next stage of turnaround focuses on cafe makeovers, customer experienceFinance
Macy's posts strong Q2 results and raises guidance as turnaround takes holdFinance
Private credit's $1.7 trillion moment: regulators want stress tests, lenders want timeFinance
Regional banks rebuild capital, but commercial real estate still shadows earningsFinance
Private credit funds tighten covenants as mid-market defaults edge higherFinance
Regional banks lift CRE reserves again even as deposit mixes stabilizeFinance
Private credit stress tests arrive as regulators ask who holds the second-lien riskFinance
Fintech M&A rebounds with two cross-border payments deals above $4 billionFinance
IRS Direct File expansion puts a pricing squeeze on the tax-prep duopolyFinance
Venture-debt lenders tighten after a cluster of AI-adjacent missed covenantsFinance
Share-repurchase authorizations cluster in tech, banks, and cash-rich healthcareFinance
Blackstone marks down a pair of office funds after a slow marketing processFinance
JPMorgan raises the buyback after stress-capital buffers come in lighterFinance
Fintech M&A reopens around payments infrastructure, not consumer appsFinance
Apollo's insurance float keeps growing, drawing a fresh NAIC comment letterFinance
Regional banks rebuild capital, but CRE still shadows earningsFinance
SoFi and the neobanks reprice deposits as money-market yields stay stickyFinance
Visa and Mastercard face a new merchant-fee bill with bipartisan sponsorsFinance
The IPO window cracks open for fintech, but valuations remain a hard sellFinance
KKR delays a software take-private after lenders ask for a wider OIDFinance
Fannie Mae credit-risk transfers find a bid from Japanese life insurersFinance
Private equity dry powder meets a rate path that no longer does the model a favorFinance
Stripe's stablecoin rails for platforms get a first bank-partner memoFinance
State Street and BNY court tokenized Treasury pilots with two asset managersFinance
NAV loans draw scrutiny as LPs ask who sits behind the fund-level facilityFinance
Progressive and the P&C group push rates again after catastrophe printsFinance
Citadel Securities expands retail wholesale market-making into optionsFinance
Card-network fee fights migrate from politics to merchant litigationFinance
LendingClub tightens unsecured originations as charge-offs tick upFinance
Goldman ECM reopens a fintech IPO window with three confidential filingsFinance
Moody's puts three BBB- industrial hybrids on review after a dividend cutFinance
The FDIC's special assessment math still hangs over mid-size bank NIMsFinance
PayPal's checkout share slips another 40 basis points in a merchant surveyFinance
Brookfield raises a transition-infrastructure fund heavier on U.S. grid assetsFinance
Charles Schwab's cash-sorting mix improves as clients stop chasing T-billsFinance
The IRS's Direct File expansion is a quiet threat to the tax-prep oligopolyFinance
Ares and the BDC complex cut leverage after a covenant-lite scareFinance
Treasury buybacks stay small, but the bid-ask in off-the-runs tightens