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While rising rates buoy revenue for the country's largest banks, in the short term they also force them to write down the value of assets they hold on their balance sheet, exacerbating a capital squeeze that's prompted most of them to halt buybacks.

North Carolina Republican Patrick McHenry — who's in line to lead the House Financial Services Committee after the GOP won control of the chamber in the midterm elections — has called for the Fed to stay focused on controlling inflation. Democrats, who retained the Senate, have begun to voice concerns that higher borrowing costs will hurt jobs and potentially cause a recession.

Burke & Herbert Financial Services in Alexandria, Virginia, plans to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock market — not to raise funds, but to boost its profile with investors.

Banks that offer a wide array of products and services are confronting extraordinary challenges. They aren't doomed, however.

JPMorgan Chase's asset-management arm entered into a deal to acquire more than $1 billion of single-family rentals, a sign that choppy markets haven't scared investors away from suburban housing.

Younger borrowers and those with lower incomes added the most to their card balances in the third quarter, according to a New York Fed report. Delinquency levels are also on the rise, a sign that more consumers are struggling to pay off higher debt loads.

JPMorgan Chase is on the hunt for buyouts to lend to and is hoping to gain market share in leveraged financing after avoiding the dozens of clunkers that have cost competitors billions of dollars.

Onward, an app that recently raised a Series A from investors that include Citi Ventures, helps separated and divorced parents transparently share expenses and pay each other back in one spot.

JPMorgan Chase is expanding beyond acquiring in the Canadian small-business market, where it will have to rely on new technologies to be competitive.

Inconsistent rules for calculating bank capital threaten to cut off small banks from a key source of liquidity.