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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
______________________________
FORM 10-Q  
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(Mark One)
| QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 | |||||
For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2025  
Or
| TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 | |||||
For the transition period from              to             
Commission file number 1-10706  
____________________________________________________________________________________
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | ||||
Comerica Bank Tower
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code) 
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading symbol | Name of each exchange on which registered | ||||||
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes  ý No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes  ý No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
| ☒ | Accelerated filer  | ☐ | |||||||||
| Non-accelerated filer | ☐ | Smaller reporting company | |||||||||
| Emerging growth company | |||||||||||
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐  No ☒
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer's classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.
$5 par value common stock: Outstanding as of October 24, 2025: 127,742,643  shares
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COMERICA INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES
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| PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION | |||||
| ITEM 1. Financial Statements | |||||
| Consolidated Balance Sheets at September 30, 2025 (unaudited) and December 31, 2024 | 1 | ||||
| Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 (unaudited) | 2 | ||||
| Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 (unaudited) | 3 | ||||
| Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 (unaudited) | 4 | ||||
| Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited) | 5 | ||||
| ITEM 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 39 | ||||
| ITEM 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk | 69 | ||||
| ITEM 4. Controls and Procedures | 69 | ||||
| PART II. OTHER INFORMATION | |||||
| ITEM 1. Legal Proceedings | 69 | ||||
| ITEM 1A. Risk Factors | 69 | ||||
| ITEM 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds | 70 | ||||
| ITEM 5. Other Information | 70 | ||||
| ITEM 6. Exhibits | 72 | ||||
| Signature | 73 | ||||
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Part I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
| (in millions, except share data) | September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| (unaudited) | |||||||||||
| ASSETS | |||||||||||
| Cash and due from banks | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with banks | |||||||||||
| Other short-term investments | |||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale | |||||||||||
| Commercial loans | |||||||||||
| Real estate construction loans | |||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage loans | |||||||||||
| Lease financing | |||||||||||
| International loans | |||||||||||
| Residential mortgage loans | |||||||||||
| Consumer loans | |||||||||||
| Total loans | |||||||||||
| Allowance for loan losses | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Net loans | |||||||||||
| Premises and equipment | |||||||||||
| Accrued income and other assets | |||||||||||
| Total assets | $ | $ | |||||||||
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY | |||||||||||
| Noninterest-bearing deposits | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Money market and interest-bearing checking deposits | |||||||||||
| Savings deposits | |||||||||||
| Customer certificates of deposit | |||||||||||
| Other time deposits | |||||||||||
| Foreign office time deposits | |||||||||||
| Total interest-bearing deposits | |||||||||||
| Total deposits | |||||||||||
| Accrued expenses and other liabilities | |||||||||||
| Medium- and long-term debt | |||||||||||
| Total liabilities | |||||||||||
| Preferred stock -  | |||||||||||
| Authorized -  | |||||||||||
| Issued and outstanding -  | |||||||||||
| Common stock - $5 par value: | |||||||||||
| Authorized -  | |||||||||||
| Issued -  | |||||||||||
| Capital surplus | |||||||||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Retained earnings | |||||||||||
| Less cost of common stock in treasury -  | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Total shareholders’ equity | |||||||||||
| Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity | $ | $ | |||||||||
See notes to consolidated financial statements (unaudited).
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (unaudited)
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries 
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions, except per share data) | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| INTEREST INCOME | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest and fees on loans | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Interest on investment securities | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest on short-term investments | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| INTEREST EXPENSE | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest on deposits | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest on short-term borrowings | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest on medium- and long-term debt | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income after provision for credit losses | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| NONINTEREST INCOME | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Card fees | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fiduciary income | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Service charges on deposit accounts | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capital markets income | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial lending fees | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brokerage fees | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bank-owned life insurance | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Letter of credit fees | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Risk management hedging income (loss) | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other noninterest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| NONINTEREST EXPENSES | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salaries and benefits expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outside processing fee expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Software expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupancy expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equipment expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| FDIC insurance expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Advertising expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other noninterest expenses | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest expenses | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income before income taxes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for income taxes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| NET INCOME | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Less: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income allocated to participating securities | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred stock dividends and other | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income attributable to common shares | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Earnings per common share: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basic | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Diluted | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comprehensive income | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared on common stock | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared per common share | |||||||||||||||||||||||
See notes to consolidated financial statements (unaudited).
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (unaudited)
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
| Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nonredeemable Preferred Stock | Common Stock | Total Shareholders' Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shares Outstanding | Capital Surplus | Retained Earnings | Treasury Stock | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions, except per share data) | Amount | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BALANCE AT JUNE 30, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| Net income | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive income, net of tax | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared on common stock ($ | — | — | — | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared on preferred stock | — | — | — | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Net issuance of common stock under employee stock plans | — | — | ( | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Share-based compensation | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| BALANCE AT SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| BALANCE AT JUNE 30, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| Net income | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive income, net of tax | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared on common stock ($ | — | — | — | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Purchase of common stock | — | ( | — | ( | — | — | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of preferred stock | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Net issuance of common stock under employee stock plans | — | — | ( | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Share-based compensation | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| BALANCE AT SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| BALANCE AT DECEMBER 31, 2023 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle (a) | — | — | — | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive income, net of tax | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared on common stock ($ | — | — | — | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared on preferred stock | — | — | — | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Net issuance of common stock under employee stock plans | — | — | ( | — | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Share-based compensation | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| BALANCE AT SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| BALANCE AT DECEMBER 31, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||
| Net income | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other comprehensive income, net of tax | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared on common stock ($ | — | — | — | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared on preferred stock | — | — | — | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Purchase of common stock | — | ( | — | ( | — | — | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of preferred stock | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Redemption of preferred stock | ( | — | — | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Net issuance of common stock under employee stock plans | — | — | ( | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Share-based compensation | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||
| BALANCE AT SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||
See notes to consolidated financial statements (unaudited).
(a)Effective January 1, 2024, the Corporation adopted ASU 2023-02, which expanded the permitted use of the proportional amortization method to certain tax credit investments. 
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (unaudited)
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||
| OPERATING ACTIVITIES | ||||||||||||||
| Net income | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities: | ||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | ||||||||||||||
| Provision for deferred income taxes | ||||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | ||||||||||||||
| Net periodic defined benefit credit | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Share-based compensation expense | ||||||||||||||
| Net (accretion) amortization of securities | ( | |||||||||||||
| Net gains on sales of foreclosed property and other bank property | ( | |||||||||||||
| Net change in: | ||||||||||||||
| Accrued income receivable | ||||||||||||||
| Accrued expenses payable | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Other, net | ( | |||||||||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | ||||||||||||||
| INVESTING ACTIVITIES | ||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale: | ||||||||||||||
| Maturities and redemptions | ||||||||||||||
| Purchases | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Net change in loans | ( | |||||||||||||
| Proceeds from sales of foreclosed property and other bank property | ||||||||||||||
| Net increase in premises and equipment | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Federal Home Loan Bank stock: | ||||||||||||||
| Purchases | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Redemptions | ||||||||||||||
| Proceeds from bank-owned life insurance settlements | ||||||||||||||
| Other, net | ( | |||||||||||||
| Net cash provided by investing activities | ||||||||||||||
| FINANCING ACTIVITIES | ||||||||||||||
| Net change in: | ||||||||||||||
| Deposits | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Short-term borrowings | ( | |||||||||||||
| Medium- and long-term debt: | ||||||||||||||
| Maturities and redemptions | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Issuances and advances | ||||||||||||||
| Preferred stock: | ||||||||||||||
| Issuance | ||||||||||||||
| Cash dividends paid | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Common stock: | ||||||||||||||
| Repurchases | ( | |||||||||||||
| Stock tendered for payment of withholding taxes | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Cash dividends paid | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Issuances under employee stock plans | ||||||||||||||
| Other, net | ( | |||||||||||||
| Net cash used in financing activities | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period | ||||||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents at end of period | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Interest paid | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Income taxes paid | ||||||||||||||
See notes to consolidated financial statements (unaudited).
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NOTE 1 - BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND ACCOUNTING POLICIES 
Organization
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with United States (U.S.) generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, the statements do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation were included. The results of operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2025. Certain items in prior periods were reclassified to conform to the current presentation. The accompanying unaudited financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and footnotes included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries (the Corporation) for the year ended December 31, 2024 (2024 Annual Report).
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU No. 2024-03 "Income Statement - Reporting Comprehensive Income - Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses" (ASU 2024-03). ASU 2024-03 requires additional interim and annual disclosures that further disaggregate certain expense captions into specified categories in a separate note to the financial statements, as well as certain qualitative information describing amounts not separately disaggregated. ASU 2024-03 is effective for the Corporation in the annual period beginning on January 1, 2027 and interim periods beginning on January 1, 2028 and can be applied on either a prospective or retrospective basis, with early adoption permitted. The Corporation is evaluating the impact of ASU 2024-03 to its disclosures.
In September 2025, the FASB issued ASU No. 2025-06  "Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40): Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Internal-Use Software" (ASU 2025-06). ASU 2025-06 amends accounting for software costs by removing consideration of project development stages. Costs will be capitalized when management, with the relevant authority, implicitly or explicitly authorizes and commits to funding a computer software project and it is probable that the project will be completed and the software will be used to perform the function intended. ASU 2025-06 is effective for the Corporation beginning on January 1, 2028 and can be applied using a prospective, retrospective or modified transition approach. Early adoption is permitted. The Corporation is evaluating the impact of adoption. 
NOTE 2 – FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS 
The Corporation utilizes fair value measurements to record fair value adjustments to certain assets and liabilities and to determine fair value disclosures. The determination of fair values of financial instruments often requires the use of estimates. In cases where quoted market values in an active market are not available, the Corporation uses present value techniques and other valuation methods to estimate the fair values of its financial instruments. These valuation methods require considerable judgment and the resulting estimates of fair value can be significantly affected by the assumptions made and methods used.
Investment securities available-for-sale, derivatives, deferred compensation plans and equity securities with readily determinable fair values (primarily money market mutual funds) are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis. Additionally, from time to time, the Corporation may be required to record other assets and liabilities at fair value on a nonrecurring basis, such as impaired loans, loans held for sale, other real estate (primarily foreclosed property), nonmarketable equity securities and certain other assets and liabilities. These nonrecurring fair value adjustments typically involve write-downs of individual assets or application of lower of cost or fair value accounting.
Refer to Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements in the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report for further information about the fair value hierarchy, descriptions of the valuation methodologies and key inputs used to measure financial assets and liabilities recorded at fair value, as well as a description of the methods and significant assumptions used to estimate fair value disclosures for financial instruments not recorded at fair value in their entirety on a recurring basis.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
Assets and Liabilities Recorded at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis
The following tables present the recorded amount of assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
| (in millions) | Total | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deferred compensation plan assets | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equity securities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Treasury securities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities (a) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities (a) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total investment securities available-for-sale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivative assets: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest rate contracts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Energy contracts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign exchange contracts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total derivative assets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total assets at fair value | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivative liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest rate contracts | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Energy contracts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign exchange contracts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other financial derivative liabilities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total derivative liabilities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deferred compensation plan liabilities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total liabilities at fair value | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deferred compensation plan assets | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equity securities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Treasury securities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities (a) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities (a) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total investment securities available-for-sale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivative assets: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest rate contracts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Energy contracts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign exchange contracts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total derivative assets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total assets at fair value | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivative liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest rate contracts | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Energy contracts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign exchange contracts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other financial derivative liabilities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total derivative liabilities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deferred compensation plan liabilities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total liabilities at fair value | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Issued and/or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies or U.S. government-sponsored enterprises. 
    There were no transfers of assets or liabilities recorded at fair value on a recurring basis into or out of Level 3 fair value measurements during the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
The following table summarizes the changes in Level 3 assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
| Net Realized/Unrealized Losses (Pretax) Recorded in Earnings (a) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | Balance at Beginning of Period | Realized | Unrealized | Balance at End of Period | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivative liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other financial derivative liabilities | $ | ( | $ | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivative liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other financial derivative liabilities | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivative liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other financial derivative liabilities | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivative liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other financial derivative liabilities | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Realized and unrealized gains and losses due to changes in fair value are recorded in other noninterest income on the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income. 
Assets and Liabilities Recorded at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis
The Corporation may be required to record certain assets and liabilities at fair value on a nonrecurring basis. These include assets that are recorded at the lower of cost or fair value and were recognized at fair value since it was less than cost at the end of the period. 
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The following table presents assets recorded at fair value on a nonrecurring basis at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. No 
| (in millions) | Level 3 | ||||
| September 30, 2025 | |||||
| Loans: | |||||
| Commercial | $ | ||||
| Commercial mortgage | |||||
| Residential mortgage | |||||
| Total loans | |||||
| Loans held-for-sale | |||||
| Total assets at fair value | $ | ||||
| December 31, 2024 | |||||
| Loans: | |||||
| Commercial | $ | ||||
| Commercial mortgage | |||||
| Residential mortgage | |||||
| Total loans | |||||
| Loans held-for-sale | |||||
| Other real estate | |||||
| Total assets at fair value | $ | ||||
Level 3 assets recorded at fair value on a nonrecurring basis at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 included loans with a specific allowance and certain bank property held for sale, both measured based on the fair value of collateral. The unobservable inputs were the additional adjustments applied by management to the appraised values to reflect such factors as non-current appraisals and revisions to estimated time to sell. These adjustments are determined based on qualitative judgments made by management on a case-by-case basis and are not observable inputs, although they are used in the determination of fair value. At September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, loans held-for-sale classified as Level 3 represented loans held-for-sale in less liquid markets requiring significant management assumptions when determining fair value.
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Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
Estimated Fair Values of Financial Instruments Not Recorded at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis
The Corporation typically holds the majority of its financial instruments until maturity and thus does not expect to realize many of the estimated fair value amounts disclosed. The disclosures do not include estimated fair value amounts for items that are not defined as financial instruments, but which have significant value. These include such items as core deposit intangibles, the future earnings potential of significant customer relationships and the value of trust operations and other fee generating businesses. The Corporation believes the imprecision of an estimate could be significant. The disclosures also do not include a limited amount of nonmarketable equity securities (primarily indirect private equity and venture capital investments) that do not have a readily determinable fair value and whose fair values are based on net asset value. 
The carrying amount and estimated fair value of financial instruments not recorded at fair value in their entirety on a recurring basis on the Corporation’s Consolidated Balance Sheets are as follows:
| Carrying Amount | Estimated Fair Value | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | Total | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash and due from banks | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with banks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term investments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans, net of allowance for loan losses (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liabilities | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Demand deposits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total deposits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium- and long-term debt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit-related financial instruments | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash and due from banks | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with banks | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term investments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans, net of allowance for loan losses (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liabilities | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Demand deposits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total deposits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium- and long-term debt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit-related financial instruments | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Included $111 million and $158 million of loans recorded at fair value on a nonrecurring basis at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. 
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NOTE 3 - INVESTMENT SECURITIES 
A summary of the Corporation’s investment securities follows:
| (in millions) | Amortized Cost | Gross Unrealized Gains | Gross Unrealized Losses | Fair Value | |||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Treasury securities | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total investment securities available-for-sale | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Treasury securities | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total investment securities available-for-sale | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
(a)Issued and/or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies or U.S. government-sponsored enterprises.
A summary of the Corporation’s investment securities in an unrealized loss position as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 follows:
| Less than 12 Months | 12 Months or more | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions, except securities count) | Fair Value | Unrealized Losses | Fair Value | Unrealized Losses | Fair Value | Unrealized Losses | Count | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Treasury securities | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities (a) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities (a) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total temporarily impaired securities | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Treasury securities | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities (a) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities (a) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total temporarily impaired securities | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Issued and/or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies or U.S. government-sponsored enterprises.
Unrealized losses on investment securities resulted from changes in market interest rates. The Corporation’s portfolio is comprised of securities issued or guaranteed by U.S. government agencies or government-sponsored enterprises. As such, it is expected that the securities would not be settled at a price less than the amortized cost of the investments. Further, the Corporation does not intend to sell the investments, and it is not more-likely-than-not that it will be required to sell the investments before recovery of amortized costs. No allowance for credit losses was recorded on securities in an unrealized loss position at September 30, 2025 or December 31, 2024.
Interest receivable on investment securities totaled $37  million at September 30, 2025 and $38  million at December 31, 2024 and was included in accrued income and other assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The investment securities portfolio included floating-rate securities with a fair value of $2  million and $3  million at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
There were no 
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The following table summarizes the amortized cost and fair values of investment securities by contractual maturity. Securities with multiple maturity dates are classified in the period of final maturity. The actual cash flows of mortgage-backed securities may differ as borrowers of the underlying loans may exercise prepayment options. Expected maturities will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties.
| (in millions) | |||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | Amortized Cost | Fair Value | |||||||||
| Contractual maturity | |||||||||||
| One year or less | $ | $ | |||||||||
| After one year through five years | |||||||||||
| After five years through ten years | |||||||||||
| After ten years | |||||||||||
| Total investment securities | $ | $ | |||||||||
At September 30, 2025, investment securities with a carrying value of $3.2  billion were pledged where permitted or required by law. Pledges included $1.8  billion to the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) as collateral for current advances and potential future borrowings, as well as $1.4  billion to secure $392  million of liabilities, consisting of trust deposits, deposits of public entities and state and local government agencies as well as derivative instruments. For information on FHLB borrowings, refer to Note 8.
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NOTE 4 – CREDIT QUALITY AND ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES 
The following table presents an aging analysis of the amortized cost basis of loans.
| Loans Past Due and Still Accruing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 30-59 Days | 60-89 Days | 90 Days or More | Total | Nonaccrual Loans | Current Loans | Total Loans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business loans: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Real estate construction: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial Real Estate business line (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other business lines (b) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total real estate construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial Real Estate business line (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other business lines (b) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total commercial mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total business loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retail loans: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consumer: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home equity | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total consumer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total retail loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business loans: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Real estate construction: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial Real Estate business line (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other business lines (b) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total real estate construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial Real Estate business line (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other business lines (b) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total commercial mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total business loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retail loans: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consumer: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home equity | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total consumer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total retail loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Primarily loans to real estate developers. 
(b)Primarily loans secured by owner-occupied real estate. 
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The following table presents loans by credit quality indicator and vintage year. Credit quality indicator is based on internal risk ratings assigned to each business loan at the time of approval and subjected to subsequent reviews, generally at least annually, and to pools of retail loans with similar risk characteristics. Vintage year is the year of origination or major modification. 
| September 30, 2025 | Vintage Year | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | Prior | Revolvers | Revolvers Converted to Term | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business loans: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total commercial | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial gross charge-offs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Real estate construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total real estate construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Real estate construction gross charge-offs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total commercial mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage gross charge-offs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total lease financing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing gross charge-offs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total international | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total business loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retail loans: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total residential mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consumer: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home equity | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other consumer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total other consumer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other consumer gross charge-offs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total consumer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total retail loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Table continues on the following page. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| December 31, 2024 | Vintage Year | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | Prior | Revolvers | Revolvers Converted to Term | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business loans: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total commercial | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial gross charge-offs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Real estate construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total real estate construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total commercial mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage gross charge-offs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total lease financing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing gross charge-offs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total international | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International gross charge-offs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total business loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retail loans: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criticized | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total residential mortgage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consumer: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total retail loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Includes all loans not included in the categories of special mention, substandard or nonaccrual.  
Criticized loans includes loans with an internal rating of special mention, substandard loans for which the accrual of interest has not been discontinued and nonaccrual loans. Special mention loans have potential credit weaknesses that deserve management’s close attention, such as loans to borrowers who may be experiencing financial difficulties that may result in deterioration of repayment prospects from the borrower at some future date. Accruing substandard loans have a well-defined weakness, or weaknesses, such as loans to borrowers who may be experiencing losses from operations or inadequate liquidity of a degree and duration that jeopardizes the orderly repayment of the loan. Substandard loans are also distinguished by the distinct possibility of loss in the future if these weaknesses are not corrected. Nonaccrual loans are loans for which the accrual  
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of interest has been discontinued. For further information regarding nonaccrual loans, refer to the Nonperforming Assets subheading in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Accounting Policies on page F-52 in the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report. These categories are generally consistent with the "special mention" and "substandard" categories as defined by regulatory authorities. A minority of nonaccrual loans are consistent with the "doubtful" category.
Loan interest receivable totaled $257  million and $266  million at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, and was included in accrued income and other assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.
Allowance for Credit Losses
The following table details the changes in the allowance for credit losses.
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | Business Loans | Retail Loans | Total | Business Loans | Retail Loans | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at beginning of period: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for loan losses | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses on lending-related commitments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loan charge-offs | ( | ( | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recoveries on loans previously charged-off | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loan charge-offs | ( | ( | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Allowance for credit losses on lending-related commitments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at beginning of period | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for loan losses | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Loan charge-offs | ( | ( | ( | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recoveries on loans previously charged-off | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loan (charge-offs) recoveries | ( | ( | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Provision for loan losses | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses on lending-related commitments | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance at end of period: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Allowance for credit losses | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for loan losses as a percentage of total loans | % | % | % | % | % | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses as a percentage of total loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nonaccrual Loans
The following table presents additional information regarding nonaccrual loans. Interest income of $2 4 
| (in millions) | Nonaccrual Loans with No Related Allowance | Nonaccrual Loans with Related Allowance | Total Nonaccrual Loans | ||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
| Business loans: | |||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate construction: | |||||||||||||||||
| Commercial Real Estate business line (a) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total real estate construction | |||||||||||||||||
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| Other business lines (b) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total commercial mortgage | |||||||||||||||||
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| Total retail loans | |||||||||||||||||
| Total nonaccrual loans | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| Business loans: | |||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage: | |||||||||||||||||
| Commercial Real Estate business line (a) | |||||||||||||||||
| Other business lines (b) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total commercial mortgage | |||||||||||||||||
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| Total nonaccrual loans | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||
(a)Primarily loans to real estate developers.
(b)Primarily loans secured by owner-occupied real estate.
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Foreclosed Properties
Foreclosed properties were $2  million at September 30, 2025 and insignificant at December 31, 2024. Retail loans secured by residential real estate properties in process of foreclosure included in nonaccrual loans were $3  million at September 30, 2025 and $4  million at December 31, 2024.
Loan Modifications Made to Borrowers Experiencing Financial Difficulty 
As part of its loss mitigation efforts, the Corporation may modify loans to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty in a manner resulting in an interest rate reduction, other-than-insignificant payment delay, a term extension, principal forgiveness or a combination thereof (collectively referred to as Financially Distressed Modifications, or FDMs).
The following table displays the amortized cost basis at September 30, 2025 and 2024 of FDMs that were restructured during the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 by type of modification.
| (in millions) | Term Extension (a) | Payment Delay (a) | Interest Rate Reduction | Combinations (b) | Total | Percent of Total Class | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business loans: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other business lines (c) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total loans | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business loans: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other business lines (c) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total loans | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (in millions) | Term Extension (a) | Payment Delay (a) | Interest Rate Reduction | Combinations (b) | Total | Percent of Total Class | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business loans: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Real estate construction: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial Real Estate business line (d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total real estate construction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial Real Estate business line (d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other business lines (c) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total commercial mortgage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total business loans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total loans | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Business loans: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total retail loans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Represents loan balances where terms were extended or payments were delayed by a more than an insignificant time period, typically more than 180 days, at or above contractual interest rates.  
(b)Relates to FDMs where more than one type of modification was made. For the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, this primarily related to modifications where the interest rate was reduced and the term was extended. 
(c)Primarily loans secured by owner-occupied real estate.
(d)Primarily loans to real estate developers.
There were no 
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The following table summarizes the financial impacts of loan modifications made during the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
| Weighted-Average Term Extension (in months) | Weighted-Average Interest Rate Reduction | ||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||
| Business loans: | |||||||||||
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| Commercial mortgage: | |||||||||||
| Other business lines (a) | ( | ||||||||||
| Total commercial mortgage | ( | ||||||||||
| Total business loans | ( | ||||||||||
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| Home equity | ( | ||||||||||
| Total consumer | ( | ||||||||||
| Total retail loans | ( | ||||||||||
| Total loans | ( | % | |||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, 2024 | |||||||||||
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| Commercial | ( | % | |||||||||
| Commercial mortgage: | |||||||||||
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| Total business loans | ( | ||||||||||
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| Home equity | ( | ||||||||||
| Total consumer | ( | ||||||||||
| Total retail loans | ( | ||||||||||
| Total loans | ( | % | |||||||||
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| Weighted-Average Term Extension (in months) | Weighted-Average Interest Rate Reduction | ||||||||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||
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| Commercial Real Estate business line (b) | ( | ||||||||||
| Total real estate construction | ( | ||||||||||
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| Other business lines (a) | ( | ||||||||||
| Total commercial mortgage | ( | ||||||||||
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| Total consumer | ( | ||||||||||
| Total retail loans | ( | ||||||||||
| Total loans | ( | % | |||||||||
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| Commercial mortgage: | |||||||||||
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| Total retail loans | ( | ||||||||||
| Total loans | ( | % | |||||||||
(a)Primarily loans secured by owner-occupied real estate.
(b)Primarily loans to real estate developers.
On an ongoing basis, the Corporation monitors the performance of modified loans related to their restructured terms. Of the loans restructured in the previous twelve months, $21  million of business loans and $1  million of retail loans were past due under modified terms at September 30, 2025, compared to $30  million of business loans and $1  million of retail loans at September 30, 2024. Nonperforming restructured loans are classified as nonaccrual loans and are individually evaluated for the allowance for loan losses.
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NOTE 5 - GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLES 
The following table summarizes the carrying value of goodwill by reporting unit at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
| (in millions) | September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Commercial Bank | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Retail Bank | ||||||||||||||
| Wealth Management | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
The annual test of goodwill impairment was performed as of the beginning of third quarter 2025. The Corporation first assessed qualitative factors to determine whether it was more likely than not that the fair value of any reporting unit was less than its carrying amount, including goodwill. Qualitative factors included economic conditions, industry and market considerations, cost factors, overall financial performance and performance of the Corporation's common stock, among other events and circumstances. At the conclusion of the qualitative assessment in third quarter 2025, the Corporation determined that it was more likely than not that the fair value of each reporting unit exceeded its carrying value.
Analyzing goodwill includes consideration of various factors that involve a degree of uncertainty, including the impacts of monetary policy actions, foreign developments and unanticipated legislative or regulatory changes, among other factors, that could cause the fair value of one or more of the reporting units to fall below their carrying value, resulting in a goodwill impairment charge in the future. Any impairment charge would not affect the Corporation's regulatory capital ratios, tangible equity ratio or liquidity position.
NOTE 6 – DERIVATIVES AND CREDIT-RELATED FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS 
In the normal course of business, the Corporation enters into various transactions involving derivative and credit-related financial instruments to manage exposure to fluctuations in interest rate, foreign currency and other market risks and to meet the financing needs of customers (customer-initiated derivatives). These financial instruments involve, to varying degrees, elements of market and credit risk. Market and credit risk are included in the determination of fair value.
Market risk is the potential loss that may result from movements in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates or energy commodity prices that cause an unfavorable change in the value of a financial instrument. The Corporation manages this risk by establishing monetary exposure limits and monitoring compliance with those limits. Market risk inherent in interest rate and energy contracts entered into on behalf of customers is mitigated by taking offsetting positions, except in those circumstances when the amount, tenor and/or contract rate level results in negligible economic risk, whereby the cost of purchasing an offsetting contract is not economically justifiable. The Corporation mitigates most of the inherent market risk in foreign exchange contracts entered into on behalf of customers by taking offsetting positions and manages the remainder through individual foreign currency position limits and aggregate value-at-risk limits. Position and value-at-risk limits are established annually and monitored daily. Market risk inherent in derivative instruments held or issued for risk management purposes is typically offset by changes in the fair value of the assets or liabilities being hedged.
Credit risk is the possible loss that may occur in the event of nonperformance by the counterparty to a financial instrument. The Corporation attempts to minimize credit risk arising from customer-initiated derivatives by evaluating the creditworthiness of each customer, adhering to the same credit approval process used for traditional lending activities and obtaining collateral as deemed necessary. Derivatives with dealer counterparties are either cleared through a clearinghouse or settled directly with a single counterparty. For derivatives settled directly with dealer counterparties, the Corporation utilizes counterparty risk limits and monitoring procedures as well as master netting arrangements and bilateral collateral agreements to facilitate the management of credit risk.
Included in the fair value of derivative instruments are credit valuation adjustments reflecting counterparty credit risk. These adjustments are determined by applying a credit spread for the counterparty or the Corporation, as appropriate, to the total expected exposure of the derivative. Master netting arrangements effectively reduce credit valuation adjustments by permitting settlement of positive and negative positions and offset cash collateral held with the same counterparty on a net basis. Bilateral collateral agreements require daily exchange of cash or highly rated securities issued by the U.S. Treasury or other U.S. government entities to collateralize amounts due to either party. At September 30, 2025, counterparties with bilateral collateral agreements deposited $78  million of cash with the Corporation to secure the fair value of contracts in an unrealized gain position, and the Corporation had pledged no  marketable investment securities and posted $4  million of cash as collateral for contracts in an unrealized loss position. For those counterparties not covered under bilateral collateral agreements, collateral 
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is obtained, if deemed necessary, based on the results of management’s credit evaluation of the counterparty. Collateral varies, but may include cash, investment securities, accounts receivable, equipment or real estate. 
Derivative Instruments
Derivative instruments utilized by the Corporation are negotiated over-the-counter and primarily include swaps, caps and floors, forward contracts and options, each of which may relate to interest rates, energy commodity prices or foreign currency exchange rates. Swaps are agreements in which two parties periodically exchange cash payments based on specified indices applied to a specified notional amount until a stated maturity. Caps and floors are agreements which entitle the buyer to receive cash payments based on the difference between a specified reference rate or price and an agreed strike rate or price, applied to a specified notional amount until a stated maturity. Forward contracts are over-the-counter agreements to buy or sell an asset at a specified future date and price. Options are similar to forward contracts except the purchaser has the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell the asset during a specified period or at a specified future date.
Over-the-counter contracts are tailored to meet the needs of the counterparties involved and, therefore, contain a greater degree of credit risk and liquidity risk than exchange-traded contracts, which have standardized terms and readily available price information. The Corporation reduces exposure to market and liquidity risks from over-the-counter derivative instruments entered into for risk management purposes, as well as transactions entered into to mitigate the market risk associated with customer-initiated transactions, by taking offsetting positions with investment grade domestic and foreign financial institutions and subjecting counterparties to credit approvals, limits and collateral monitoring procedures similar to those used in making other extensions of credit. In addition, certain derivative contracts executed bilaterally with a dealer counterparty in the over-the-counter market are cleared through a clearinghouse, whereby the clearinghouse becomes the counterparty to the transaction.
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The following table presents the composition of the Corporation’s derivative instruments held or issued for risk management purposes or in connection with customer-initiated and other activities at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The table excludes a derivative related to the Corporation's 2008 sale of its remaining ownership of Visa shares and includes accrued interest receivable and payable.
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fair Value | Fair Value | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | Notional/ Contract Amount (a) | Gross Derivative Assets | Gross Derivative Liabilities | Notional/ Contract Amount (a) | Gross Derivative Assets | Gross Derivative Liabilities | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Risk management purposes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fair value swaps - receive fixed/pay floating | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total energy contracts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign exchange contracts: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spot, forwards, options and swaps | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total customer-initiated and other activities | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total gross derivatives | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amounts offset in the Consolidated Balance Sheets: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Netting adjustment - Offsetting derivative assets/liabilities | ( | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Netting adjustment - Cash collateral received/posted | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net derivatives included in the Consolidated Balance Sheets (b) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amounts not offset in the Consolidated Balance Sheets: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marketable securities pledged under bilateral collateral agreements | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net derivatives after deducting amounts not offset in the Consolidated Balance Sheets | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Notional or contractual amounts, which represent the extent of involvement in the derivatives market, are used to determine the contractual cash flows required in accordance with the terms of the agreement. These amounts are typically not exchanged, significantly exceed amounts subject to credit or market risk and are not reflected in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. 
(b)Net derivative assets are included in accrued income and other assets and net derivative liabilities are included in accrued expenses and other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Included in the fair value of net derivative assets and net derivative liabilities are credit valuation adjustments reflecting counterparty credit risk and credit risk of the Corporation. The fair value of net derivative assets included credit valuation adjustments for counterparty credit risk of $2  million and $1  million at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. 
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Risk Management
The Corporation's derivative instruments used for managing interest rate risk include cash flow hedging strategies that convert variable-rate loans to fixed rates and fair value hedging strategies that convert fixed-rate medium- and long-term debt to variable rates. Interest and fees on loans included net expense from cash flow swaps of $85  million and $178  million for the three-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and $246  million and $522  million of cash flow hedge losses for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
The following table details the effects of fair value hedging on the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.
| Interest on Medium- and Long-Term Debt | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest on medium- and long-term debt (a) | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fair value hedging relationships: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest rate contracts: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hedged items | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivatives designated as hedging instruments | |||||||||||||||||||||||
(a) Includes the effects of hedging. 
Cash flow swaps - receive fixed/pay floating rate on variable-rate loans
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||
| Weighted average: | |||||||||||
| Time to maturity (in years) | |||||||||||
| Receive rate | % | % | |||||||||
| Pay rate (a) | |||||||||||
(a)Variable rates paid on receive fixed swaps designated as cash flow hedges were based on Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) rates in effect at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. 
Fair value swaps - receive fixed/pay floating rate on medium- and long-term debt
| (dollar amounts in millions) | September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| Carrying value of hedged items (a) | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Weighted average: | |||||||||||
| Time to maturity (in years) | |||||||||||
| Receive rate (b) | % | % | |||||||||
| Pay rate (b) | |||||||||||
(a)Included $(23 ) million and $(122 ) million of cumulative hedging adjustments at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, which included a hedging adjustment on a discontinued hedging relationship of $1  million and $2  million at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. 
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Re-designated Interest Rate Swaps and Price Alignment Income
On November 15, 2023, the Bloomberg Index Services Limited (Bloomberg) announced that it would discontinue publishing the Bloomberg Short-Term Bank Yield Index (BSBY) on November 15, 2024; accordingly, the Corporation was required to “de-designate” $7.0  billion of interest rate swaps used in cash flow hedges of certain BSBY-indexed loans and reclassify amounts recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income into earnings. A total of $130  million in net losses were included in noninterest income as a result of the de-designations, consisting of $39  million during the first quarter of 2024 and $91  million during the fourth quarter of 2023. For each de-designated swap, settlement of interest payments and changes in fair value were recorded as risk management hedging losses within noninterest income instead of net interest income until re-designation. All impacted swaps were re-designated as of April 1, 2024. 
Amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income related to cash flows that continued to be probable of occurring were amortized out of accumulated other comprehensive income and into earnings, which resulted in no recorded pre-tax loss in interest and fees on loans for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $52  million for the three months ended September 30, 2024. Additionally, the fair value of swaps at re-designation date were accreted back into accumulated other comprehensive income, resulting in benefits of $19  million for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and $43  million for the three months ended September 30, 2024. 
BSBY cessation and the related de-designation and re-designation of interest rate swaps led to a net decrease in accumulated other comprehensive income of $15  million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to a net increase of $7  million for the three months ended September 30, 2024.
For more information on accumulated net losses on cash flow hedges, refer to Note 10.
Risk management hedging income (loss) also includes price alignment income, which is income received on payments made to a central clearing party for centrally cleared derivatives. Positions are settled daily based on derivative fair values and the party receiving net settlement amounts pays price alignment, based on an earning rate, to the party making settlement payments. Price alignment income totaled $4  million and $8  million for the three-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and $16  million and $38  million for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
Customer-Initiated and Other
The Corporation enters into derivative transactions at the request of customers and generally takes offsetting positions with dealer counterparties to help mitigate the inherent market risk. Income primarily results from the spread between the customer derivative and the offsetting dealer position.
For customer-initiated foreign exchange contracts where offsetting positions have not been taken, the Corporation manages the remaining inherent market risk through individual foreign currency position limits and aggregate value-at-risk limits. These limits are established annually and monitored at least monthly. 
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Fair values of customer-initiated and other derivative instruments represent the net unrealized gains or losses on such contracts and are recorded on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Changes in fair value are recognized on the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income. The net gains recognized in income on customer-initiated derivative instruments, net of the impact of offsetting positions included in capital markets income, were as follows: 
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Interest rate contracts | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Energy contracts | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign exchange contracts | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
Credit-Related Financial Instruments
The Corporation issues off-balance sheet financial instruments in connection with commercial and consumer lending activities. The Corporation’s credit risk associated with these instruments is represented by the contractual amounts indicated in the following table. 
| (in millions) | September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| Unused commitments to extend credit: | |||||||||||
| Commercial and other | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Bankcard, revolving credit and home equity loan commitments | |||||||||||
| Total unused commitments to extend credit | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Standby letters of credit | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Commercial letters of credit | |||||||||||
The Corporation maintains an allowance to cover current expected credit losses inherent in lending-related commitments, including unused commitments to extend credit, letters of credit and financial guarantees. The allowance for credit losses on lending-related commitments, included in accrued expenses and other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, was $39  million and $35  million at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
Unused Commitments to Extend Credit
Commitments to extend credit are legally binding agreements to lend to a customer, provided there is no violation of any condition established in the contract. These commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee. Since many commitments expire without being drawn upon, the total contractual amount of commitments does not necessarily represent future cash requirements of the Corporation. Commercial and other unused commitments are primarily variable rate commitments. The allowance for credit losses on lending-related commitments included $35  million at September 30, 2025 and $30  million at December 31, 2024 for expected credit losses inherent in the Corporation’s unused commitments to extend credit.
Standby and Commercial Letters of Credit
Standby letters of credit represent conditional obligations of the Corporation, which guarantee the performance of a customer to a third party. Standby letters of credit are primarily issued to support public and private borrowing arrangements, including commercial paper, bond financing and similar transactions. Commercial letters of credit are issued to finance foreign or domestic trade transactions. These contracts expire in decreasing amounts through the year. The Corporation may enter into participation arrangements with third parties that effectively reduce the maximum amount of future payments that may be required under standby and commercial letters of credit. These risk participations covered $241  million and $223  million at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, of standby and commercial letters of credit outstanding, which totaled $4.3  billion and $4.2  billion at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
The carrying value of the Corporation’s standby and commercial letters of credit, included in accrued expenses and other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, totaled $30  million at September 30, 2025, including $26  million in deferred fees and $4  million in the allowance for credit losses on lending-related commitments. At December 31, 2024, the comparable amounts were $34  million, $29  million and $5  million, respectively.
The following table presents a summary of criticized standby and commercial letters of credit at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The Corporation's criticized list is consistent with the Special Mention, Substandard and Doubtful 
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categories defined by regulatory authorities. The Corporation manages credit risk through underwriting, periodically reviewing and approving its credit exposures using Board committee approved credit policies and guidelines.
| (dollar amounts in millions) | September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| Total criticized standby and commercial letters of credit | $ | $ | |||||||||
| As a percentage of total outstanding standby and commercial letters of credit | % | % | |||||||||
Other Credit-Related Financial Instruments
The Corporation enters into credit risk participation agreements, under which the Corporation assumes credit exposure associated with a borrower’s performance related to certain interest rate derivative contracts. The Corporation is not a party to the interest rate derivative contracts and only enters into these credit risk participation agreements in instances in which the Corporation is also a party to the related loan participation agreements for such borrowers. The Corporation manages its credit risk on the credit risk participation agreements by monitoring the creditworthiness of the borrowers, which is based on the normal credit review process as if the Corporation had entered into the derivative instruments directly with the borrower. The notional amount of such credit risk participation agreements reflects the pro-rata share of the derivative instrument, consistent with its share of the related participated loan. The total notional amount of the credit risk participation agreements was approximately $969  million and $1.1  billion at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, and the fair value was insignificant at both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The maximum estimated exposure to these agreements, as measured by projecting a maximum value of the guaranteed derivative instruments, assuming 100% default by all obligors on the maximum values, was $12  million and $1  million at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. In the event of default, the lead bank has the ability to liquidate the assets of the borrower, in which case the lead bank would be required to return a percentage of the recouped assets to the participating banks. As of September 30, 2025, the weighted average remaining maturity of outstanding credit risk participation agreements was 5.1  years.
In 2008, the Corporation sold its remaining ownership of Visa Class B shares and entered into a derivative contract. Under the terms of the derivative contract, the Corporation will compensate the counterparty primarily for dilutive adjustments made to the conversion factor of the Visa Class B shares to Class A shares based on the ultimate outcome of litigation involving Visa. Conversely, the Corporation will be compensated by the counterparty for any increase in the conversion factor from anti-dilutive adjustments. The fair value of the derivative liability, included in accrued expenses and other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets, was $10  million and $6  million at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
NOTE 7 - VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES (VIEs) 
The Corporation evaluates its interest in certain entities to determine if these entities meet the definition of a VIE and whether the Corporation is the primary beneficiary and should consolidate the entity based on the variable interests it held both at inception and when there is a change in circumstances that requires a reconsideration. 
The Corporation holds ownership interests in funds in the form of limited partnerships or limited liability companies (LLCs) investing in affordable housing projects that qualify for the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC). The Corporation also directly invests in limited partnerships and LLCs that invest in community development projects, which generate similar tax credits to investors (other tax credit entities). As an investor, the Corporation obtains income tax credits and deductions from the operating losses of these tax credit entities. These tax credit entities meet the definition of a VIE; however, the Corporation is not the primary beneficiary of the entities, as the general partner or the managing member has both the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of the entities and the obligation to absorb losses or the right to receive benefits that could be significant to the entities.
The Corporation accounts for its interests in LIHTC entities and other tax credit entities that meet certain criteria using the proportional amortization method. Ownership interests in tax credit entities that do not qualify for the proportional amortization method are accounted for under either the cost or equity method. Exposure to loss as a result of the Corporation's involvement in entities using the proportional amortization method and other tax credit entities at September 30, 2025 was limited to $596  million and $1  million, respectively. 
Investment balances, including all legally binding commitments to fund future investments that are accounted for using the proportional amortization method, are included in accrued income and other assets on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. A liability is recognized in accrued expenses and other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets for all legally binding unfunded commitments to fund tax credit entities that are accounted for using the proportional amortization method ($227  million at September 30, 2025). Amortization and other write-downs of tax credit investments for which the proportional amortization method is applied are presented on a net basis as a component of the provision for income taxes on the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income, while amortization and write-downs of other tax credit investments are 
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recorded in other noninterest income. The income tax credits and deductions are recorded as a reduction of income tax expense and a reduction of federal income taxes payable. The cash flows related to the total income tax benefits are presented in the "net income," "benefit for deferred income taxes" and "other, net" line items within the operating activities section of the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
The Corporation provided no 
The following table summarizes the impact of these tax credit investments under the proportional amortization method on the Corporation’s Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for income taxes: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of investments | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tax credits | ( | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other income tax benefits related to tax credit entities | ( | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total provision for income taxes | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||||||||||
For further information on the Corporation’s consolidation policy, see Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements in the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report.
NOTE 8 - MEDIUM- AND LONG-TERM DEBT 
Medium- and long-term debt is summarized as follows:
| (in millions) | September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| Parent company | |||||||||||
| Subordinated notes: | |||||||||||
| $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Medium- and long-term notes: | |||||||||||
| Total medium- and long-term notes | |||||||||||
| Total parent company | |||||||||||
| Subsidiaries | |||||||||||
| Subordinated notes: | |||||||||||
| Total subordinated notes | |||||||||||
| FHLB advances: | |||||||||||
| Total FHLB advances | |||||||||||
| Total subsidiaries | |||||||||||
| Total medium- and long-term debt | $ | $ | |||||||||
Fixed interest rates have been swapped to a variable rate and designated in a hedging relationship for all notes outstanding at both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. Accordingly, carrying value has been adjusted to reflect the change in fair value of the debt as a result of changes in the benchmark rate. Subordinated notes with remaining maturities greater than one year qualify as Tier 2 capital.
Comerica Bank (the Bank), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated, is a member of the FHLB, which provides short- and long-term funding to its members through advances collateralized by real estate-related assets. Borrowing capacity is contingent on the amount of collateral available to be pledged to the FHLB. At September 30, 2025, total FHLB 
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borrowings were $3.0  billion, with remaining capacity for future borrowing of $10.3  billion, secured by real estate-related loans totaling $22.0  billion and investment securities totaling $1.8  billion. 
Unamortized debt issuance costs deducted from the carrying amount of medium- and long-term debt totaled $8  million and $10  million at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
NOTE 9 - SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY 
Series A Preferred Stock
In May 2020, the Corporation issued and sold 4,000  shares of 5.625 % Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A (Series A Preferred Stock), without par value, with a liquidation preference of $100,000  per share of Series A Preferred Stock, which were represented by depositary shares, each representing a 1/100th ownership interest in a share of Series A Preferred Stock. Holders of the depositary shares were entitled to all proportional rights and preferences of the Series A Preferred Stock (including dividend, voting, redemption and liquidation rights). The $400  million issuance yielded $394  million in proceeds, net of underwriting discounts and offering expenses. 
On June 10, 2025, the Corporation delivered a notice of redemption notifying the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock and corresponding depositary shares that the Corporation would be redeeming all 4,000  outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock and the corresponding depositary shares at a redemption price of $1,000 per depositary share (equivalent to $100,000  per share of Series A Preferred Stock), effective July 1, 2025. Accordingly, $400  million was reclassified from shareholders' equity to other liabilities in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of the date of the notice of redemption. The last quarterly dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock were paid on July 1, 2025, to holders of record at the close of business on June 13, 2025. 
Series B Preferred Stock
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NOTE 10 - ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS  
The following table presents a reconciliation of the changes in the components of accumulated other comprehensive loss and details the components of other comprehensive income for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, including the amount of income tax expense allocated to each component of other comprehensive income.
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Accumulated net unrealized losses on investment securities: | |||||||||||
| Balance at beginning of period, net of tax | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||
| Net unrealized holding gains arising during the period | |||||||||||
| Less: Provision for income taxes | |||||||||||
| Change in net unrealized losses on investment securities, net of tax | |||||||||||
| Balance at end of period, net of tax | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||
| Accumulated net losses on cash flow hedges: | |||||||||||
| Balance at beginning of period, net of tax | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||
| Net cash flow hedge gains (losses) arising during the period | ( | ||||||||||
| Less: Provision (benefit) for income taxes | ( | ||||||||||
| Change in net cash flow hedge losses arising during the period, net of tax | ( | ||||||||||
| Less: | |||||||||||
| Net cash flow losses included in interest and fees on loans | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Net accretion (amortization) of unrealized losses related to de-designated derivatives included in interest and fees on loans | ( | ||||||||||
| Less: Benefit for income taxes | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Reclassification adjustment for net cash flow hedge losses included in net income, net of tax | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Change in net cash flow hedge losses, net of tax | |||||||||||
| Balance at end of period, net of tax (a) | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||
| Accumulated defined benefit pension and other postretirement plans adjustment: | |||||||||||
| Balance at beginning of period, net of tax | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||
| Amounts recognized in other noninterest expenses: | |||||||||||
| Amortization of actuarial net loss | |||||||||||
| Amortization of prior service credit | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Total amounts recognized in other noninterest expenses | |||||||||||
| Less: Provision for income taxes | |||||||||||
| Adjustment for amounts recognized as components of net periodic benefit credit during the period, net of tax | |||||||||||
| Change in defined benefit pension and other postretirement plans adjustment, net of tax | |||||||||||
| Balance at end of period, net of tax | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||
| Total accumulated other comprehensive loss at end of period, net of tax | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||
(a)The Corporation expects to reclassify $111  million of losses, net of tax, from accumulated other comprehensive loss to earnings over the next twelve months if interest yield curves and notional amounts remain at September 30, 2025  levels.
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NOTE 11 - NET INCOME PER COMMON SHARE  
Basic and diluted net income per common share are presented in the following table.
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions, except per share data) | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Basic and diluted | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Less: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Income allocated to participating securities | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred stock dividends and other | (a) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income attributable to common shares | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Basic average common shares | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basic net income per common share | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Basic average common shares | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dilutive common stock equivalents: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net effect of the assumed exercise of stock awards | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diluted average common shares | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diluted net income per common share | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
(a)Includes the impact of costs related to the preferred stock redemption. Refer to Note 9 for more information.
The following average shares related to outstanding options to purchase shares of common stock that were not included in the computation of diluted net income per common share because the options were anti-dilutive for the period.
| Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (average outstanding options in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Average outstanding options | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Range of exercise prices |  $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
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NOTE 12 - EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS 
Net periodic defined benefit cost (credit) is comprised of service cost and other components of net benefit cost (credit). Service cost is included in salaries and benefits expense and other components of net benefit cost (credit) are included in other noninterest expenses on the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income. For further information on the Corporation's employee benefit plans, refer to Note 17 to the consolidated financial statements in the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report.
The components of net periodic benefit cost (credit) for the Corporation's qualified pension plan, non-qualified pension plan and postretirement benefit plan are as follows.
| Qualified Defined Benefit Pension Plan | Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Service cost | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other components of net benefit credit: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest cost | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Expected return on plan assets | ( | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of prior service credit | ( | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of net loss | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total other components of net benefit credit | ( | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net periodic defined benefit credit | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | ( | |||||||||||||||
| Non-Qualified Defined Benefit Pension Plan | Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Service cost | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other components of net benefit cost: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest cost | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of prior service credit | ( | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of net loss | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total other components of net benefit cost | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net periodic defined benefit cost | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Postretirement Benefit Plan | Three Months Ended September 30, | Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other components of net benefit credit: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest cost | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||
| Expected return on plan assets | ( | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net periodic defined benefit credit | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | ||||||||||||||||
NOTE 13 - INCOME TAXES AND TAX-RELATED ITEMS 
Unrecognized tax benefits were $8  million at both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. The Corporation anticipates a decrease of $2 million in net unrecognized tax benefits within the next twelve months. Included in accrued expenses and other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets was a liability of $1  million for tax-related interest and penalties at both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. 
Net deferred tax assets were $692  million at September 30, 2025, compared to $1.0  billion at December 31, 2024. The decrease of approximately $342  million in net deferred tax assets resulted primarily from a decrease to deferred tax assets related to hedging gains and losses, net unrealized losses on investment securities available-for-sale, defined benefit plans and other temporary timing differences. Included in deferred tax assets at September 30, 2025 were $2  million and $10  million of state net operating loss (NOL) carryforwards and federal foreign tax carryforwards, respectively, compared to $2  million and $9  million of state NOL and federal foreign tax carryforwards, respectively, at December 31, 2024. State net operating loss carryforwards expire between 2025  and 2044 , and federal foreign tax credit carryforwards expire between 2029  and 2035 . The Corporation believes that it is more likely than not that the benefit from federal foreign tax credits and certain state NOL carryforwards will not be realized and, accordingly, increased its federal valuation allowance to $10  million and retained its state valuation allowance of $2  million at September 30, 2025. The determination regarding valuation allowance was based on evidence of loss carryback capacity, projected future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences to absorb the deferred tax assets and assumptions made regarding future events. 
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
In the ordinary course of business, the Corporation enters into certain transactions that have tax consequences. From time to time, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or other tax jurisdictions may review and/or challenge specific interpretive tax positions taken by the Corporation with respect to those transactions. The Corporation believes its tax returns were filed based upon applicable statutes, regulations and case law in effect at the time of the transactions. The IRS or other tax jurisdictions, an administrative authority or a court, if presented with the transactions, could disagree with the Corporation’s interpretation of the tax law.
Based on current knowledge and probability assessment of various potential outcomes, the Corporation believes that current tax reserves are adequate, and the amount of any potential incremental liability arising is not expected to have a material adverse effect on the Corporation’s consolidated financial condition or results of operations. Probabilities and outcomes are reviewed as events unfold, and adjustments to the reserves are made when necessary.
NOTE 14 - CONTINGENT LIABILITIES 
Legal Proceedings and Regulatory Matters
The Corporation is subject to various pending or threatened legal proceedings arising out of the normal course of business or operations. Use of the term "Corporation" in this note should not be read to infer that Comerica, Incorporated or any of its subsidiaries that is not named in any legal or regulatory proceeding undertakes any responsibility or liability for any other affiliate that is actually named in any legal or regulatory proceeding. The Corporation believes it has meritorious defenses to the claims asserted against it in its currently outstanding legal proceedings and, with respect to such legal proceedings, intends to continue to defend itself vigorously, litigating or settling cases according to management’s judgment as to what is in the best interests of the Corporation and its shareholders. Settlement may result from the Corporation's determination that it may be more prudent financially to settle, rather than litigate, and should not be regarded as an admission of liability. 
Further, from time to time, the Corporation is also subject to examinations, inquiries and investigations by regulatory authorities in areas including, but not limited to, compliance, risk management and consumer protection, which could lead to administrative or legal proceedings or settlements. Remedies in resulting proceedings or settlements may include fines, penalties, restitution or alterations in the Corporation's business practices and may result in increased operating expenses or decreased revenues.
On at least a quarterly basis, the Corporation assesses its potential liabilities and contingencies in connection with outstanding legal proceedings and regulatory matters utilizing the latest information available. On a case-by-case basis, accruals are established for those legal claims and regulatory matters for which it is probable that a loss will be incurred and the amount of such loss can be reasonably estimated. The actual costs of resolving these claims and regulatory matters may be substantially higher or lower than the amounts accrued. Based on current knowledge, and after consultation with legal counsel, management believes current accruals are adequate, and the amount of any incremental liability arising from these matters is not expected to have a material adverse effect on the Corporation’s consolidated financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
For matters where a loss is not probable, the Corporation has not established an accrual. The Corporation believes the estimate of the aggregate range of reasonably possible losses, in excess of established accruals, for all legal proceedings and regulatory matters in which it is involved is from zero to approximately $26  million at September 30, 2025. This estimated aggregate range of reasonably possible losses is based upon currently available information for those legal proceedings and regulatory matters in which the Corporation is involved, taking into account the Corporation’s best estimate of such losses for those legal proceedings and regulatory matters for which such estimate can be made. For certain legal proceedings and regulatory matters, the Corporation does not believe that an estimate can currently be made. The Corporation’s estimate involves significant judgment, given the varying stages of the legal proceedings and regulatory matters (including the fact that many are currently in preliminary stages), the existence in certain legal proceedings of multiple defendants (including the Corporation) whose share of liability has yet to be determined, the numerous yet-unresolved issues in many of the legal proceedings and regulatory matters (including issues regarding class certification and the scope of many of the claims) and the attendant uncertainty of the various potential outcomes of such legal proceedings and regulatory matters. Accordingly, the Corporation’s estimate will change from time to time, and actual losses may be more or less than the current estimate.
In the event of unexpected future developments, it is possible the ultimate resolution of these matters, if unfavorable, may be material to the Corporation's consolidated financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. For information regarding income tax contingencies, refer to Note 13.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
NOTE 15 - STRATEGIC LINES OF BUSINESS 
The Corporation has strategically aligned its operations into three  major business segments: the Commercial Bank, the Retail Bank and Wealth Management. These business segments are differentiated based on the type of customer and the related products and services provided. In addition to the three  major business segments, the Finance and Other categories include items not directly associated with the business segments. Business segment results are produced by the Corporation’s internal management accounting system. This system measures financial results based on the internal business unit structure of the Corporation. The performance of the business segments is not comparable with the Corporation's consolidated results and is not necessarily comparable with similar information for any other financial institution. Additionally, because of the interrelationships of the various segments, the information presented is not indicative of how the segments would perform if they operated as independent entities. The management accounting system assigns balance sheet and income statement items to each business segment using certain methodologies, which are regularly reviewed and refined. From time to time, the Corporation may make reclassifications among the segments to more appropriately reflect management's current view of the segments, and methodologies may be modified as the management accounting system is enhanced and changes occur in the organizational structure and/or product lines. For comparability purposes, amounts in all periods are based on business unit structure and methodologies in effect at September 30, 2025. 
For the Commercial Bank, Retail Bank and Wealth Management segments, the Corporation's chief operating decision maker, the Chief Executive Officer, uses both segment net interest income and segment net income (loss) to allocate resources predominantly in the annual budget and forecasting process, which includes allocations of employees, property, financial and/or capital resources. The chief operating decision maker considers budget-to-actual variances on a monthly basis for both profit measures when making decisions about allocating capital and personnel to each segment. Additionally, segment net interest income is used to evaluate product pricing and lending terms for customer loans, while segment net income (loss) helps evaluate the performance for each segment and compensation of certain employees. 
The following discussion provides information about the activities of each business segment. A discussion of the financial results and the factors impacting performance can be found in "Business Segments" in the "Strategic Lines of Business" section of the financial review.
The Commercial Bank meets the needs of small and middle market businesses, multinational corporations and governmental entities by offering various products and services including commercial loans and lines of credit, deposits, cash management, payment solutions, card services, capital market products, international trade finance and letters of credit.
The Retail Bank includes a full range of personal financial services, consisting of consumer lending, consumer deposit gathering and mortgage loan origination. This business segment offers a variety of consumer products, including deposit accounts, installment loans, credit cards, home equity lines of credit and residential mortgage loans. In addition, this business segment offers products and services to small businesses who are serviced through a team of dedicated small business bankers and our branch network.
Wealth Management provides products and services to affluent, high-net worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families, business owners and executives, and institutional clients, including comprehensive financial planning, trust and fiduciary services, investment management and advisory, brokerage, private banking and business transition planning services. 
The Finance category includes the Corporation’s securities portfolio and asset and liability management activities. Finance is responsible for managing the Corporation’s funding, liquidity and capital needs, performing interest sensitivity analysis and executing various strategies to manage the Corporation’s exposure to liquidity, interest rate risk and foreign exchange risk.
The Other category includes tax benefits not assigned to specific business segments, charges of an unusual or infrequent nature that are not reflective of the normal operations of the business segments and miscellaneous other expenses of a corporate nature.
 Refer to Note 22 to the consolidated financial statements in the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report for further information on the methodologies which form the basis for these results.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
Business segment financial results were as follows:
| (dollar amounts in millions) | Commercial Bank | Retail Bank | Wealth Management | Finance | Other | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Earnings summary: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income (expense) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salaries and benefits expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outside processing fee expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupancy expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allocated corporate expense | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All other noninterest expenses (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest expenses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision (benefit) for income taxes | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Selected average balances: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deposits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Earnings summary: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income (expense) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salaries and benefits expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outside processing fee expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupancy expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allocated corporate expense | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All other noninterest expenses (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest expenses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision (benefit) for income taxes | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Selected average balances: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deposits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)All other noninterest expenses for each reportable business segment includes:
i.Commercial Bank - Primarily FDIC insurance expense and software expense.
ii.Retail Bank - Primarily equipment expense and FDIC insurance expense.
iii.Wealth Management - Primarily operational losses and professional fees.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
| (dollar amounts in millions) | Commercial Bank | Retail Bank | Wealth Management | Finance | Other | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Earnings Summary: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income (expense) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision (benefit) for credit losses | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salaries and benefits expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outside processing fee expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupancy expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allocated corporate expense | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All other noninterest expenses (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest expenses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision (benefit) for income taxes | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Selected average balances: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deposits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Earnings Summary: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income (expense) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salaries and benefits expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outside processing fee expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupancy expense | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allocated corporate expense | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All other noninterest expenses (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest expenses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision (benefit) for income taxes | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Selected average balances: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deposits | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)All other noninterest expenses for each reportable business segment includes:
i.Commercial Bank - Primarily net benefit from settlements and dismissed litigation and FDIC insurance expense.
ii.Retail Bank - Primarily equipment expense and FDIC insurance expense.
iii.Wealth Management - Primarily operational losses and litigation-related expense.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
NOTE 16 - REVENUE FROM CONTRACTS WITH CUSTOMERS 
Revenue from contracts with customers comprises the noninterest income earned by the Corporation in exchange for services provided to customers. The following table presents the composition of revenue from contracts with customers, segregated from other sources of noninterest income, by business segment. 
| (in millions) | Commercial Bank | Retail Bank | Wealth Management | Finance & Other | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue from contracts with customers: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Card fees | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fiduciary income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Service charges on deposit accounts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial loan servicing fees (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capital markets income (b) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brokerage fees | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other noninterest income (b) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenue from contracts with customers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other sources of noninterest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest income | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended September 30, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue from contracts with customers: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Card fees | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fiduciary income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Service charges on deposit accounts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial loan servicing fees (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capital markets income (b) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brokerage fees | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other noninterest income (b) | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenue from contracts with customers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other sources of noninterest income | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest income | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue from contracts with customers: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Card fees | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fiduciary income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Service charges on deposit accounts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial loan servicing fees (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other noninterest income (b) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total revenue from contracts with customers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other sources of noninterest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest income | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue from contracts with customers: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Card fees | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fiduciary income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other sources of noninterest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest income | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Included in commercial lending fees on the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income. 
(b)Excludes derivative, warrant and other miscellaneous income. 
Revenue from contracts with customers did not generate significant contract assets and liabilities for the periods presented.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)
Comerica Incorporated and Subsidiaries
NOTE 17 - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS 
Merger with Fifth Third Bancorp (Fifth Third)
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ITEM 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This report includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as "achieve," "anticipate," "assume," "believe," "could," "deliver," "drive," "enhance," "estimate," "expect," "focus," "future," "goal," "grow," "guidance," "intend," "may," "might," "plan," "position," "opportunity," "outlook," "strategy," "target," "trajectory," "trend," "will," "would," and similar expressions or the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Corporation's business strategy, goals and objectives, projected financial and operating results, including outlook for future growth, targeted initiatives and strategic investments across the various business segments, estimates of credit trends and global stability, the impact of recently enacted legislation and future common share dividends, common share repurchases and other uses of capital. These statements are not historical facts, but instead represent the Corporation's beliefs regarding future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of the Corporation's control. The Corporation's actual results and financial condition may differ materially from those indicated in these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause the Corporation's actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements include: credit risks (changes in customer behavior; unfavorable developments concerning credit quality; and declines or other changes in the businesses or industries of the Corporation's customers); market risks (changes in monetary and fiscal policies; fluctuations in interest rates and their impact on deposit pricing); liquidity risks (the Corporation's ability to maintain adequate sources of funding and liquidity; reductions in the Corporation's credit rating; and the interdependence of financial service companies and their soundness); technology risks (cybersecurity risks and heightened legislative and regulatory focus on cybersecurity and data privacy); operational risks (operational, systems or infrastructure failures; reliance on other companies to provide certain key components of business infrastructure; the impact of legal and regulatory proceedings or determinations; losses due to fraud; and controls and procedures failures); compliance risks (changes in regulation or oversight, or changes in the Corporation’s status with respect to existing regulations or oversight; the effects of stringent capital requirements; and the impacts of future legislative, administrative or judicial changes to tax regulations); strategic risks (damage to the Corporation's reputation; the Corporation's ability to utilize technology to efficiently and effectively develop, market and deliver new products and services; competitive product and pricing pressures among financial institutions within the Corporation's markets; the implementation of the Corporation's strategies and business initiatives; management's ability to maintain and expand customer relationships; management's ability to retain key officers and employees; and any future strategic acquisitions or divestitures); other general risks (changes in general economic, political or industry conditions, including as a result of changes in trade policies; negative effects from inflation; the effectiveness of methods of reducing risk exposures; the effects of catastrophic events; physical or transition risks related to climate change; changes in accounting standards; the critical nature of the Corporation's accounting policies, processes and management estimates; the volatility of the Corporation's stock price; that an investment in the Corporation's equity securities is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)); risks relating to the pending Merger (including the risk that the cost savings and synergies from the Merger may not be fully realized or may take longer than anticipated to be realized; the failure of the closing conditions in the Merger Agreement providing for the Merger to be satisfied, or any unexpected delay in closing the Merger or the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances, including the impact and timing of any government shutdown, that could delay the Merger or could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement; the outcome of any legal or regulatory proceedings or governmental inquiries or investigations that may be currently pending or later instituted against the Corporation, Fifth Third or the combined company; the possibility that the Merger does not close when expected or at all because required regulatory, stockholder or other approvals and other conditions to closing are not received or satisfied on a timely basis or at all (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the proposed Merger); the risk that the benefits from the Merger may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected, including as a result of changes in, or problems arising from, general economic and market conditions, interest and exchange rates, monetary policy, laws and regulations and their enforcement, and the degree of competition in the geographic and business areas in which the Corporation and Fifth Third operate; disruption to the parties’ businesses as a result of the announcement and pendency of the Merger; the costs associated with the anticipated length of time of the pendency of the Merger, including the restrictions contained in the definitive Merger Agreement on the ability of the Corporation or Fifth Third to operate its business outside the ordinary course during the pendency of the Merger; risks related to management and oversight of the expanded business and operations of the combined company following the closing of the proposed Merger; the risk that the integration of each party’s operations will be materially delayed or will be more costly or difficult than expected or that the parties are otherwise unable to successfully integrate each party’s businesses into the other’s businesses; the possibility that the Merger may be more expensive to complete than anticipated, including as a result of unexpected factors or events; reputational risk and potential adverse reactions of the Corporation or Fifth Third customers, employees, vendors, contractors or other business partners, including those resulting from the announcement or completion of the Merger; 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condition of the Corporation or Fifth Third; the extent to which the Corporation’s or Fifth Third’s businesses perform consistent with management’s expectations; the Corporation’s and Fifth Third’s ability to take advantage of growth opportunities and implement targeted initiatives in the timeframe and on the terms currently expected; and the possibility that the combined company is subject to additional regulatory requirements as a result of the proposed Merger or expansion of the combined company’s business operations following the proposed Merger); and the other factors set forth in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” beginning on page 16 of the Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 and in our subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statement contained in this report is based solely on information currently available to the Corporation and speaks only as of the date on which it is made. The Corporation undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except to the extent required by law.
MERGER WITH FIFTH THIRD BANCORP
On October 6, 2025, Fifth Third Bancorp (Fifth Third) and the Corporation announced that they entered into a definitive merger agreement (the Merger Agreement) under which Fifth Third will acquire the Corporation in an all-stock transaction. Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, the Corporation's shareholders will receive 1.8663 Fifth Third shares for each Corporation share. The transaction (the Merger) is subject to shareholder approvals for both Fifth Third and the Corporation, customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions, and is anticipated to close at the end of the first quarter of 2026. For further discussion of the Merger, refer to Note 17 to the consolidated financial statements. 
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RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
In accordance with Item 303(c) of Regulation S-K, the Corporation is providing a comparison of the quarter ended September 30, 2025 against the preceding sequential quarter. The Corporation believes providing a sequential discussion of its results of operations provides more relevant information for investors and stakeholders to understand and analyze the business. Balance sheet items are discussed in terms of average balances unless otherwise noted.
Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 Compared to Three Months Ended June 30, 2025
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions, except per share data) | September 30, 2025 | June 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 574 | $ | 575 | |||||||
| Provision for credit losses | 22 | 44 | |||||||||
| Noninterest income | 264 | 274 | |||||||||
| Noninterest expenses | 589 | 561 | |||||||||
| Income before income taxes | 227 | 244 | |||||||||
| Provision for income taxes | 51 | 45 | |||||||||
| Net income | $ | 176 | $ | 199 | |||||||
| Diluted earnings per common share | $ | 1.35 | $ | 1.42 | |||||||
Net income for the three months ended September 30, 2025 was $176 million, a decrease of $23 million compared to $199 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025, driven by an increase in noninterest expenses and a decrease in noninterest income, partially offset by a decrease in provision for credit losses. Net income per diluted common share for the three months ended September 30, 2025 was $1.35 compared to net income per diluted common share of $1.42 for the three months ended June 30, 2025, a decrease of $0.07 per diluted common share. 
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| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | June 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | Average Balance | Interest | Average Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Rate | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial loans (a) | $ | 26,500 | $ | 377 | 5.63 | % | $ | 26,441 | $ | 372 | 5.65 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Real estate construction loans | 2,900 | 55 | 7.60 | 3,499 | 66 | 7.51 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage loans | 15,283 | 256 | 6.64 | 14,722 | 243 | 6.63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing | 776 | 11 | 5.87 | 737 | 11 | 5.82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| International loans | 1,115 | 18 | 6.56 | 1,066 | 18 | 6.59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage loans | 1,954 | 20 | 4.19 | 1,948 | 20 | 4.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consumer loans | 2,227 | 42 | 7.33 | 2,252 | 41 | 7.40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans (b) | 50,755 | 779 | 6.09 | 50,665 | 771 | 6.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities (c) | 13,430 | 92 | 2.31 | 13,525 | 94 | 2.32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Treasury securities (d) | 1,280 | 13 | 4.20 | 1,289 | 13 | 4.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total investment securities | 14,710 | 105 | 2.45 | 14,814 | 107 | 2.46 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with banks (e) | 5,428 | 60 | 4.32 | 4,540 | 50 | 4.37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term investments | 327 | 2 | 3.17 | 324 | 3 | 3.34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total earning assets | 71,220 | 946 | 5.10 | 70,343 | 931 | 5.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash and due from banks | 784 | 766 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for loan losses | (698) | (683) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accrued income and other assets | 6,970 | 7,117 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total assets | $ | 78,276 | $ | 77,543 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Money market and interest-bearing checking deposits (f) | $ | 33,969 | 249 | 2.90 | $ | 31,849 | 220 | 2.77 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Savings deposits | 2,051 | 1 | 0.20 | 2,112 | 1 | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Customer certificates of deposit | 3,274 | 24 | 2.89 | 3,074 | 21 | 2.75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other time deposits | 504 | 6 | 4.61 | 1,080 | 14 | 5.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign office time deposits | 14 | — | 3.12 | 24 | — | 3.68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest-bearing deposits | 39,812 | 280 | 2.78 | 38,139 | 256 | 2.69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Federal funds purchased | 99 | 1 | 4.23 | 377 | 4 | 4.41 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term borrowings | 908 | 10 | 4.48 | 964 | 11 | 4.45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium- and long-term debt | 5,512 | 81 | 5.93 | 5,740 | 85 | 5.92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest-bearing sources | 46,331 | 372 | 3.19 | 45,220 | 356 | 3.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest-bearing deposits | 22,923 | 23,107 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accrued expenses and other liabilities | 1,964 | 2,280 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shareholders’ equity | 7,058 | 6,936 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity | $ | 78,276 | $ | 77,543 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income/rate spread | $ | 574 | 1.91 | $ | 575 | 1.96 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Impact of net noninterest-bearing sources of funds | 1.18 | 1.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest margin (as a percentage of average earning assets) | 3.09 | % | 3.16 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Interest income on commercial loans included net expense from cash flow swaps of $85 million and $83 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and June 30, 2025, respectively.
(b)Nonaccrual loans are included in average balances reported and in the calculation of average rates.
(c)Average balances included $2.4 billion and $2.6 billion of unrealized losses for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and June 30, 2025, respectively; yields calculated gross of these unrealized losses.
(d)Average balances included $5 million and $4 million of unrealized gains for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and June 30, 2025, respectively; yields calculated gross of these unrealized gains.
(e)Average balances excluded $10 million and $18 million of collateral posted and netted against derivative liability positions for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and June 30, 2025, respectively; yields calculated gross of derivative netting amounts.
(f)Average balances excluded $72 million and $96 million of collateral received and netted against derivative asset positions for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and June 30, 2025, respectively; rates calculated gross of derivative netting amounts.
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| Three Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025/June 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | Increase (Decrease) Due to Rate (a) | Increase (Decrease) Due to Volume (a) | Net Increase (Decrease) | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest income: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | $ | 7 | $ | 1 | $ | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Investment securities | — | (2) | (2) | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with banks | — | 10 | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term investments | (1) | — | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest income | 6 | 9 | 15 | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits | 15 | 9 | 24 | |||||||||||||||||
| Short-term borrowings | — | (4) | (4) | |||||||||||||||||
| Medium- and long-term debt | — | (4) | (4) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest expense | 15 | 1 | 16 | |||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | (9) | $ | 8 | $ | (1) | ||||||||||||||
(a)Impact of additional days, other portfolio dynamics and interest rate swaps reflected as part of rate impact; rate/volume variances are allocated to variances due to volume.
Net interest income remained relatively stable at $574 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $575 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025, while net interest margin decreased 7 basis points to 3.09% for the same period. The decrease in net interest margin was driven by a $1.7 billion increase in interest-bearing deposit accounts and relationship-focused deposit pricing, as well as a reduction in the benefit from BSBY cessation, partially offset by a $334 million decrease in short-term borrowings and a $228 million decrease in medium- and long-term debt. Net interest income for the three months ended September 30, 2025 was positively impacted by one additional day in the quarter, compared to the three months ended June 30, 2025.
For further discussion of the effects of market rates on net interest income, refer to the "Market and Liquidity Risk" section of this financial review.
Provision for Credit Losses
The provision for credit losses, which includes the provision for loan losses and the provision for credit losses on lending-related commitments, was $22 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $44 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025. The allowance for credit losses decreased $10 million to $725 million at September 30, 2025, compared to $735 million at June 30, 2025, reflecting the impact of a slightly improved economic forecast, relatively stable credit performance and continued uncertainty. As a percentage of total loans, the allowance for credit losses was 1.43% at September 30, 2025, compared to 1.44% at June 30, 2025.
Net loan charge-offs were $32 million, or 25 basis points as a percentage of average loans, for the three months ended September 30, 2025, an increase of $4 million from $28 million, or 22 basis points as a percentage of average loans, for the three months ended June 30, 2025, reflecting increases in Technology and Life Sciences and general Middle Market, partially offset by a decline in Corporate Banking. The provision for credit losses on lending-related commitments was $2 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025.
The provision for credit losses is the amount recorded in earnings to adjust the allowance for credit losses to the level of expected losses estimated using the Corporation's current expected credit loss (CECL) model as of the end of the reporting period. As such, factors impacting the allowance for credit losses during the quarter indirectly determine the amount of provision expense recorded. The following is a summary of the changes to the major components of the allowance for credit losses during the three months ended September 30, 2025:
•Portfolio credit metrics were relatively stable as of September 30, 2025, with certain metrics improving marginally while others evidenced slight deterioration from June 30, 2025. Criticized loan balances and criticized loans as a percentage of total loans decreased by 3% and 14 basis points, respectively, while nonperforming assets increased by 2 basis points as a percentage of total loans and foreclosed property.  
•Economic forecasts as of September 30, 2025 were slightly improved compared to June 30, 2025, reflecting the incorporation of better-than-expected actuals for second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and slightly improved 
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projections for unemployment and bond spreads, offset by modestly weaker projections for GDP growth, across the reasonable and supportable period as of September 30, 2025 compared to June 30, 2025.
•The allowance for credit losses incorporates risks not captured in the underlying model, primarily forecast risk. In management's view, forecast risk at September 30, 2025 was relatively flat compared to June 30, 2025, as the impact of a government shutdown and judicial rulings related to evolving tariff policies led to continued uncertainty. These uncertainties considered by management have broad implications for the overall economy and also include the impacts of potentially prolonged inflation and the fiscal deficit, amongst other risks.
Further analysis of the allowance for credit losses, economic forecasts, and a summary of nonperforming assets are presented under the "Credit Risk" subheading in the "Risk Management" section of this financial review. 
Noninterest Income
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||
| (in millions) | September 30, 2025 | June 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| Card fees | $ | 57 | $ | 59 | |||||||
| Fiduciary income | 51 | 57 | |||||||||
| Service charges on deposit accounts | 47 | 47 | |||||||||
| Capital markets income | 37 | 42 | |||||||||
| Commercial lending fees | 17 | 17 | |||||||||
| Brokerage fees | 14 | 14 | |||||||||
| Bank-owned life insurance | 13 | 9 | |||||||||
| Letter of credit fees | 10 | 10 | |||||||||
| Risk management hedging income | 4 | 5 | |||||||||
| Other noninterest income (a) | 14 | 14 | |||||||||
| Total noninterest income | $ | 264 | $ | 274 | |||||||
(a)The table below provides further details on certain categories included in other noninterest income.
Noninterest income decreased $10 million to $264 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $274 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025, reflecting decreases in fiduciary income and capital markets income, partially offset by a seasonal increase in bank-owned life insurance income. Other noninterest income is detailed in the table below.
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||
| (in millions) | September 30, 2025 | June 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| FHLB and FRB stock dividends | $ | 3 | $ | 3 | |||||||
| Deferred compensation asset returns (a) | 4 | 5 | |||||||||
| All other noninterest income | 7 | 6 | |||||||||
| Other noninterest income | $ | 14 | $ | 14 | |||||||
(a)Compensation deferred by the Corporation's officers and directors is invested based on investment selections of the officers and directors. Income earned on these assets is reported in other noninterest income and the corresponding change in deferred compensation plan liabilities is reported in salaries and benefits expense.
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Noninterest Expenses
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||
| (in millions) | September 30, 2025 | June 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| Salaries and benefits expense | $ | 353 | $ | 358 | |||||||
| Outside processing fee expense | 69 | 67 | |||||||||
| Software expense | 50 | 48 | |||||||||
| Occupancy expense | 48 | 46 | |||||||||
| Equipment expense | 13 | 13 | |||||||||
| FDIC insurance expense | 10 | 11 | |||||||||
| Advertising expense | 10 | 11 | |||||||||
| Other noninterest expenses | 36 | 7 | |||||||||
| Total noninterest expenses | $ | 589 | $ | 561 | |||||||
Noninterest expenses increased $28 million to $589 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $561 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025, primarily due to an increase in other noninterest expenses, partially offset by a decrease in salaries and benefits expense, reflecting the net impact of cumulative adjustments to incentive compensation based on expected performance. Other noninterest expenses included a $13 million increase in litigation-related expenses (primarily from settlements and dismissed litigation recorded in the prior quarter), an $8 million increase in operational losses, a $4 million increase in consulting expenses and a $3 million increase from an interest recovery on a state tax matter recorded in the prior quarter. 
Provision for Income Taxes
 Provision for income taxes increased $6 million to $51 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $45 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025. Favorable discrete items for the three months ended September 30, 2025 decreased by $9 million, as provision for income taxes for the three months ended June 30, 2025 included a benefit that resulted from changes in the combined state income tax rate applicable to deferred tax assets relating to California legislation impacting apportionment for financial institutions.
On July 4, 2025, H.R. 1, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, was signed into law. The Corporation has completed its initial evaluation of the provisions of the bill and does not expect it to have a material impact on its financial statements.
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2025 Compared to Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions, except per share data) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 1,724 | $ | 1,615 | |||||||
| Provision for credit losses | 86 | 28 | |||||||||
| Noninterest income | 792 | 804 | |||||||||
| Noninterest expenses | 1,734 | 1,720 | |||||||||
| Income before income taxes | 696 | 671 | |||||||||
| Provision for income taxes | 149 | 143 | |||||||||
| Net income | $ | 547 | $ | 528 | |||||||
| Diluted earnings per common share | $ | 4.01 | $ | 3.80 | |||||||
Net income increased $19 million to $547 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $528 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, driven by an increase in net interest income, partially offset by increases in provision for credit losses and noninterest expenses as well as a reduction in noninterest income. The increase in net interest income was primarily due to the net impact of lower rates (including the impact of interest rate swaps and BSBY cessation) as well as declines in FHLB advances and brokered deposits, partially offset by decreases in deposits held with the FRB, loans and investment securities. Net income per diluted common share increased $0.21 to $4.01 for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $3.80 for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
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| Nine Months Ended | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | September 30, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | Average Balance | Interest | Average Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Rate | |||||||||||||||||
| Commercial loans (a) | $ | 26,352 | $ | 1,117 | 5.67 | % | $ | 26,305 | $ | 1,035 | 5.26 | % | |||||||||||
| Real estate construction loans | 3,291 | 185 | 7.53 | 4,642 | 292 | 8.41 | |||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage loans | 14,914 | 739 | 6.62 | 14,104 | 788 | 7.46 | |||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing | 747 | 32 | 5.79 | 804 | 37 | 6.14 | |||||||||||||||||
| International loans | 1,062 | 52 | 6.60 | 1,096 | 64 | 7.85 | |||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage loans | 1,941 | 60 | 4.13 | 1,895 | 55 | 3.84 | |||||||||||||||||
| Consumer loans | 2,240 | 124 | 7.37 | 2,254 | 138 | 8.20 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total loans (b) | 50,547 | 2,309 | 6.11 | 51,100 | 2,409 | 6.30 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities (c) | 13,552 | 281 | 2.32 | 14,560 | 298 | 2.29 | |||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Treasury securities (d) | 1,283 | 40 | 4.19 | 1,425 | 4 | 0.38 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total investment securities | 14,835 | 321 | 2.46 | 15,985 | 302 | 2.14 | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with banks (e) | 4,926 | 163 | 4.35 | 6,112 | 250 | 5.45 | |||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term investments | 342 | 8 | 3.30 | 381 | 11 | 3.94 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total earning assets | 70,650 | 2,801 | 5.11 | 73,578 | 2,972 | 5.19 | |||||||||||||||||
| Cash and due from banks | 761 | 711 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for loan losses | (690) | (688) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Accrued income and other assets | 7,074 | 7,415 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total assets | $ | 77,795 | $ | 81,016 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Money market and interest-bearing checking deposits (f) | $ | 32,584 | 682 | 2.79 | $ | 29,585 | 724 | 3.26 | |||||||||||||||
| Savings deposits | 2,100 | 3 | 0.17 | 2,277 | 4 | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||
| Customer certificates of deposit | 3,210 | 69 | 2.86 | 3,797 | 103 | 3.61 | |||||||||||||||||
| Other time deposits | 877 | 34 | 5.12 | 3,035 | 120 | 5.30 | |||||||||||||||||
| Foreign office time deposits | 24 | — | 3.62 | 22 | 1 | 4.39 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest-bearing deposits | 38,795 | 788 | 2.71 | 38,716 | 952 | 3.28 | |||||||||||||||||
| Federal funds purchased | 220 | 7 | 4.38 | 9 | — | 5.39 | |||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term borrowings | 628 | 21 | 4.47 | 1,095 | 47 | 5.65 | |||||||||||||||||
| Medium- and long-term debt | 5,910 | 261 | 5.89 | 6,944 | 358 | 6.87 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest-bearing sources | 45,553 | 1,077 | 3.15 | 46,764 | 1,357 | 3.86 | |||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest-bearing deposits | 23,167 | 25,371 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Accrued expenses and other liabilities | 2,155 | 2,588 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Shareholders’ equity | 6,920 | 6,293 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity | $ | 77,795 | $ | 81,016 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income/rate spread | $ | 1,724 | 1.96 | $ | 1,615 | 1.33 | |||||||||||||||||
| Impact of net noninterest-bearing sources of funds | 1.18 | 1.49 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest margin (as a percentage of average earning assets) | 3.14 | % | 2.82 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
(a)Interest income on commercial loans included net expense from cash flow swaps of $246 million and $522 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
(b)Nonaccrual loans are included in average balances reported and in the calculation of average rates.
(c)Average balances included $2.6 billion and $2.8 billion of unrealized losses for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively; yields calculated gross of these unrealized losses.
(d)Average balances included $3 million of unrealized gains and $55 million of unrealized losses for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively; yields calculated gross of these unrealized gains and losses.
(e)Average balances excluded $10 million and included $2 million of collateral posted and netted against derivative liability positions for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively; yields calculated gross of derivative netting amounts.
(f)Average balances excluded $79 million and $108 million of collateral received and netted against derivative asset positions for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively; rates calculated gross of derivative netting amounts.
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| Nine Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025/September 30, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | (Decrease) Increase Due to Rate (a) | Decrease (Increase) Due to Volume (a) | Net (Decrease) Increase | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest income: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | $ | (68) | $ | (32) | $ | (100) | ||||||||||||||
| Investment securities | 43 | (24) | 19 | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with banks | (48) | (39) | (87) | |||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term investments | (2) | (1) | (3) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest income | (75) | (96) | (171) | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits | (111) | (53) | (164) | |||||||||||||||||
| Short-term borrowings | (10) | (9) | (19) | |||||||||||||||||
| Medium- and long-term debt | (57) | (40) | (97) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest expense | (178) | (102) | (280) | |||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 103 | $ | 6 | $ | 109 | ||||||||||||||
(a)Impact of additional days, other portfolio dynamics and interest rate swaps reflected as part of rate impact; rate/volume variances are allocated to variances due to volume.
Net interest income for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 increased $109 million compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2024, and net interest margin increased 32 basis points for the same period, due to lower rates (including the impact of interest rate swaps and BSBY cessation), a $2.2 billion decline in higher-cost brokered deposits and a $1.2 billion decrease in FHLB advances, partially offset by decreases of $1.2 billion in deposits held with the FRB, $553 million in loans and $1.2 billion in investment securities. For further discussion of the effects of market rates on net interest income, refer to the "Market and Liquidity Risk" section of this financial review.
Provision for Credit Losses
The provision for credit losses increased $58 million to $86 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $28 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, reflecting the impact of changes in the Corporation's portfolio composition and a rise in economic uncertainty. Net loan charge-offs were $86 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, an increase of $50 million compared to $36 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, reflecting increases in general Middle Market, Commercial Real Estate, Technology and Life Sciences and Energy. An analysis of the allowance for credit losses and nonperforming assets is presented under the "Credit Risk" subheading in the "Risk Management" section of this financial review.
Noninterest Income
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Card fees | $ | 175 | $ | 194 | |||||||
| Fiduciary income | 160 | 166 | |||||||||
| Service charges on deposit accounts | 140 | 137 | |||||||||
| Capital markets income | 110 | 106 | |||||||||
| Commercial lending fees | 50 | 50 | |||||||||
| Brokerage fees  | 42 | 37 | |||||||||
| Letter of credit fees | 31 | 30 | |||||||||
| Bank-owned life insurance | 31 | 33 | |||||||||
| Risk management hedging income (loss) | 16 | (1) | |||||||||
| Other noninterest income (a) | 37 | 52 | |||||||||
| Total noninterest income | $ | 792 | $ | 804 | |||||||
(a)The table below provides further details on certain categories included in other noninterest income.
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Noninterest income decreased $12 million to $792 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $804 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, driven by a decrease in card fees (mostly government card interchange fees), partially offset by an increase in risk management hedging income, which included $39 million of losses related to BSBY cessation in the 2024 period. Other noninterest income for the 2025 period included a $4 million loss on a derivative related to Visa's Class B shares (Visa derivative), while other noninterest income for the 2024 period included a $5 million negotiated vendor payment.
The following table presents certain categories included in other noninterest income on the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| FHLB and FRB stock dividends | $ | 9 | $ | 13 | |||||||
| Deferred compensation asset returns (a) | 7 | 11 | |||||||||
| All other noninterest income | 21 | 28 | |||||||||
| Other noninterest income | $ | 37 | $ | 52 | |||||||
(a)Compensation deferred by the Corporation's officers and directors is invested based on investment selections of the officers and directors. Income earned on these assets is reported in other noninterest income and the corresponding change in deferred compensation plan liabilities is reported in salaries and benefits expense. 
Noninterest Expenses
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | |||||||||||
| (in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Salaries and benefits expense | $ | 1,079 | $ | 1,006 | |||||||
| Outside processing fee expense | 200 | 205 | |||||||||
| Software expense | 146 | 135 | |||||||||
| Occupancy expense | 140 | 134 | |||||||||
| Equipment expense | 39 | 38 | |||||||||
| FDIC insurance expense | 35 | 66 | |||||||||
| Advertising expense | 29 | 30 | |||||||||
| Other noninterest expenses | 66 | 106 | |||||||||
| Total noninterest expenses | $ | 1,734 | $ | 1,720 | |||||||
Noninterest expenses increased $14 million to $1.7 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $1.7 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, due to increases in salaries and benefits expense and software expense, partially offset by decreases in FDIC insurance expense (special assessment and changes in balance sheet composition) and consulting fees, as well as an increase in gains on the sale of real estate and other assets. The increase in salaries and benefits expense reflected the impact of annual merit-based salary increases and staff additions, as well as higher severance costs and temporary labor.
STRATEGIC LINES OF BUSINESS
The Corporation has strategically aligned its operations into three major business segments: the Commercial Bank, the Retail Bank and Wealth Management. These business segments are differentiated based on the type of customer and the related products and services provided. In addition to the three major business segments, the Finance and Other categories include items not directly associated with the business segments. The performance of the business segments is not comparable with the Corporation's consolidated results and is not necessarily comparable with similar information for any other financial institution. Additionally, because of the interrelationships of the various segments, the information presented is not indicative of how the segments would perform if they operated as independent entities. Note 15 to the consolidated financial statements describes the business activities of each business segment and presents financial results of the business segments for the three- and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
The Corporation's management accounting system assigns balance sheet and income statement items to each segment using certain methodologies, which are regularly reviewed and refined. These methodologies may be modified as the management accounting system is enhanced and changes occur in the Corporation's organizational structure and/or product lines. Note 22 to the consolidated financial statements in the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report describes the Corporation's segment reporting methodology.
Net interest income for each segment reflects the interest income generated by earning assets less interest expense on interest-bearing liabilities plus the net impact from associated internal funds transfer pricing (FTP) funding credits and charges. The FTP methodology allocates credits to each business segment for deposits and other funds provided as well as charges for 
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loans and other assets being funded. FTP crediting rates on deposits and other funds provided reflect the long-term value of deposits and other funding sources based on the behavioral characteristics of deposit types and corresponding liquidity that is provided. FTP charge rates for funding loans and other assets reflect a matched cost of funds based on the pricing and duration characteristics of the assets. As a result of applying matched funding, interest revenue for each segment resulting from loans and other assets is generally not impacted by changes in interest rates. Therefore, net interest income for each segment primarily reflects the volume of loans and other earning assets at the spread over the matched cost of funds, as well as the volume of deposits at the associated FTP crediting rates. Generally, in periods of rising interest rates, FTP charge rates for funding loans and FTP crediting rates on deposits will increase, with FTP crediting rates for deposits typically repricing at a slower pace than FTP charge rates for funding loans. Conversely, in periods of declining interest rates, FTP charge rates for funding loans and FTP crediting rates on deposits will decrease, with FTP crediting rates for deposits typically repricing at a slower pace than FTP charge rates for funding loans. 
Business Segments
The following sections present a summary of the performance of each of the Corporation's business segments for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 compared to the same period in the prior year.
Commercial Bank
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | Percent Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Earnings summary: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 1,378 | $ | 1,406 | $ | (28) | (2) | % | |||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | 93 | 22 | 71 | n/m | |||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest income | 427 | 442 | (15) | (3) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest expenses | 794 | 777 | 17 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for income taxes | 202 | 225 | (23) | (10) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | $ | 716 | $ | 824 | $ | (108) | (13) | % | |||||||||||||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | 80 | $ | 32 | $ | 48 | n/m | ||||||||||||||||
| Selected average balances: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | $ | 43,047 | $ | 43,693 | $ | (646) | (1) | % | |||||||||||||||
| Deposits | 33,066 | 31,845 | 1,221 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Average loans for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 decreased $646 million from the nine months ended September 30, 2024, which included decreases in National Dealer Services, Commercial Real Estate and Corporate Banking, partially offset by an increase in Environmental Services. Average deposits increased $1.2 billion for the same period, which included increases in general Middle Market, Commercial Real Estate and Equity Fund Services, partially offset by a decrease in Technology and Life Sciences. 
The Commercial Bank's net income was $716 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, a decrease of $108 million from the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Net interest income decreased $28 million due to lower income on loans, partially offset by lower allocated net FTP charges. The provision for credit losses increased $71 million, while net charge-offs increased $48 million to $80 million, reflecting increases in general Middle Market, Commercial Real Estate, Technology and Life Sciences and Energy. Noninterest income decreased $15 million, primarily due to lower card fees and a $5 million negotiated vendor payment received in the 2024 period. Noninterest expenses increased $17 million, primarily reflecting higher allocated corporate expenses, partially offset by a reduction in FDIC insurance expense (related to special assessment) as well as a net benefit from settlements and dismissed litigation.
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Retail Bank
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | Percent Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Earnings summary: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 739 | $ | 609 | $ | 130 | 21 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | (5) | 4 | (9) | n/m | |||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest income | 80 | 85 | (5) | (8) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest expenses | 519 | 533 | (14) | (3) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for income taxes | 73 | 34 | 39 | n/m | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | $ | 232 | $ | 123 | $ | 109 | 89 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | 4 | $ | 3 | $ | 1 | 64 | ||||||||||||||||
| Selected average balances: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | $ | 2,404 | $ | 2,322 | $ | 82 | 4 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Deposits | 23,465 | 24,400 | (935) | (4) | |||||||||||||||||||
n/m - not meaningful
Average loans for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 increased $82 million from the nine months ended September 30, 2024, while average deposits decreased $935 million for the same period. The Retail Bank's net income was $232 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, an increase of $109 million from the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Net interest income increased $130 million, primarily due to lower interest expense and higher FTP crediting rates on deposits. Noninterest income decreased $5 million, as other noninterest income for the 2025 period included a $4 million loss on the Visa derivative. Noninterest expenses decreased $14 million, primarily driven by lower FDIC insurance expense (related to special assessment).
Wealth Management
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | Percent Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Earnings summary: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 145 | $ | 140 | $ | 5 | 4 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | (1) | 2 | (3) | n/m | |||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest income | 216 | 216 | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest expenses | 280 | 275 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for income taxes | 20 | 18 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | $ | 62 | $ | 61 | $ | 1 | 3 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | 2 | $ | 1 | $ | 1 | 66 | ||||||||||||||||
| Selected average balances: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | $ | 5,091 | $ | 5,073 | $ | 18 | — | % | |||||||||||||||
| Deposits | 3,686 | 3,898 | (212) | (5) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Average loans for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 increased $18 million from the nine months ended September 30, 2024, while average deposits decreased $212 million for the same period. Wealth Management's net income was $62 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, relatively stable compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Net interest income increased $5 million, primarily due to lower allocated net FTP charges, while noninterest income was stable. Noninterest expenses increased $5 million, primarily driven by higher litigation-related expenses, partially offset by lower operational losses.
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Finance & Other
| Nine Months Ended September 30, | Percent Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Earnings summary: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest expense | $ | (538) | $ | (540) | $ | 2 | — | % | |||||||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | (1) | — | (1) | n/m | |||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest income | 69 | 61 | 8 | 16 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest expenses | 141 | 135 | 6 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Benefit for income taxes | (146) | (134) | (12) | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (463) | $ | (480) | $ | 17 | (4) | % | |||||||||||||||
| Selected average balances: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | $ | 5 | $ | 12 | $ | (7) | (59) | % | |||||||||||||||
| Deposits | 1,745 | 3,944 | (2,199) | (55) | |||||||||||||||||||
Average deposits for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, which primarily consisted of centrally-managed brokered time deposits fully insured by the FDIC, decreased $2.2 billion from the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Net loss for the Finance and Other category was $463 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, a decrease of $17 million from the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Net interest expense increased $2 million, reflecting the impact of interest rate swaps (which are centrally managed). Noninterest income increased $8 million, primarily due to higher risk management hedging income (impact of BSBY cessation in the 2024 period), partially offset by a decrease in investment fees. Noninterest expenses increased $6 million, reflecting an increase in salaries and benefits expense, partially offset by higher corporate expenses allocated to other business lines and lower consultant fees.
The following table lists the Corporation's banking centers by geographic market. 
| September 30, | |||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||
| Michigan | 143 | 159 | |||||||||
| Texas | 107 | 113 | |||||||||
| California | 85 | 88 | |||||||||
| Other Markets | 18 | 20 | |||||||||
| Total | 353 | 380 | |||||||||
FINANCIAL CONDITION
Third Quarter 2025 Compared to Fourth Quarter 2024
Period-End Balances
Total assets decreased $1.9 billion to $77.4 billion at September 30, 2025, compared to $79.3 billion at December 31, 2024, reflecting a $1.9 billion decrease in interest-bearing deposits with banks (primarily with the FRB), partially offset by an increase of $347 million in total loans. The growth in total loans included increases of $593 million in Environmental Services and $282 million in Wealth Management, partially offset by a decrease of $395 million in National Dealer Services.
Total liabilities decreased $2.8 billion to $69.9 billion at September 30, 2025, compared to $72.8 billion at December 31, 2024, reflecting decreases of $1.8 billion in noninterest-bearing deposits and $1.3 billion in medium- and long-term debt, partially offset by an increase of $629 million in interest-bearing deposits. For additional information regarding deposits, refer to "Deposit Concentrations and Uninsured Deposits" under the "Market Risk" subheading in the "Risk Management" section of this financial review. Total shareholders' equity increased $886 million, primarily reflecting a decrease in accumulated unrealized losses on investment securities available-for-sale and cash flow hedges, as well as net income recorded during the period.
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Average Balances
Total assets decreased $958 million to $78.3 billion for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to the three months ended December 31, 2024, which included decreases of $684 million in investment securities and $267 million in interest-bearing deposits with banks. The following table provides information about the change in the Corporation's average loan portfolio by loan type.
| Three Months Ended | Percent Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial loans | $ | 26,500 | $ | 26,198 | $ | 302 | 1 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Real estate construction loans | 2,900 | 3,765 | (865) | (23) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage loans | 15,283 | 14,728 | 555 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing | 776 | 752 | 24 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| International loans | 1,115 | 988 | 127 | 13 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage loans | 1,954 | 1,921 | 33 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Consumer loans | 2,227 | 2,265 | (38) | (2) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | 50,755 | $ | 50,617 | $ | 138 | — | % | |||||||||||||||
By line of business, the $138 million increase in loans included increases of $415 million in Environmental Services, $200 million in Wealth Management and $162 million in Technology and Life Sciences, as well as smaller increases in other business lines, mostly offset by decreases of $481 million in National Dealer Services and $312 million in Commercial Real Estate.
Total liabilities decreased $1.3 billion to $71.2 billion for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to the three months ended December 31, 2024, primarily reflecting decreases of $1.3 billion in noninterest-bearing deposits and $1.2 billion in medium- and long-term debt, partially offset by increases of $965 million in short-term borrowings and $687 million in interest-bearing deposits. The following table provides information about the change in the Corporation's average deposits and borrowed funds by type.
| Three Months Ended | Percent Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | Change | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest-bearing deposits | $ | 22,923 | $ | 24,222 | $ | (1,299) | (5) | % | |||||||||||||||
| Money market and interest-bearing checking deposits | 33,969 | 32,045 | 1,924 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Savings deposits | 2,051 | 2,142 | (91) | (4) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Customer certificates of deposit | 3,274 | 3,542 | (268) | (8) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other time deposits | 504 | 1,371 | (867) | (63) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign office time deposits | 14 | 25 | (11) | (43) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total deposits | $ | 62,735 | $ | 63,347 | $ | (612) | (1) | % | |||||||||||||||
| Short-term borrowings | 1,007 | 42 | 965 | n/m | |||||||||||||||||||
| Medium- and long-term debt | 5,512 | 6,698 | (1,186) | (18) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total borrowed funds | $ | 6,519 | $ | 6,740 | $ | (221) | (3) | % | |||||||||||||||
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Increases of $1.3 billion in general Middle Market and $248 million in Equity Fund Services were partially offset by decreases of $643 million in Retail Banking and $404 million in Technology and Life Sciences, as well as smaller decreases in other business lines. Other time deposits, which consisted of brokered deposits, decreased $867 million from the three months ended December 31, 2024.
Short-term borrowings for the three months ended September 30, 2025 increased $965 million compared to the three months ended December 31, 2024, reflecting an increase in FHLB advances, while medium- and long-term debt decreased $1.2 billion to $5.5 billion, driven by the repayment of long-term FHLB advances in March 2025 and a subordinated note maturity in July 2025. 
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Capital
The following table presents a summary of changes in total shareholders' equity for the nine months ended September 30, 2025.
| (in millions) | |||||||||||
| Balance at January 1, 2025 | $ | 6,543 | |||||||||
| Net income | 547 | ||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared on common stock | (277) | ||||||||||
| Cash dividends declared on preferred stock | (11) | ||||||||||
| Purchase of common stock | (302) | ||||||||||
| Issuance of preferred stock | 392 | ||||||||||
| Redemption of preferred stock | (400) | ||||||||||
| Other comprehensive income, net of tax: | |||||||||||
| Investment securities | $ | 521 | |||||||||
| Cash flow hedges | 375 | ||||||||||
| Defined benefit and other postretirement plans | 4 | ||||||||||
| Total other comprehensive income, net of tax | 900 | ||||||||||
| Net issuance of common stock under employee stock plans | 1 | ||||||||||
| Share-based compensation | 36 | ||||||||||
| Balance at September 30, 2025 | $ | 7,429 | |||||||||
On August 11, 2025, the Corporation issued and sold 400,000 shares of 6.875% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B (Series B Preferred Stock), no par value, with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share of Series B Preferred Stock, which were represented by depositary shares, each representing a 1/40th ownership interest in a share of Series B Preferred Stock. Holders of the depositary shares are entitled to all proportional rights and preferences of the Series B Preferred Stock (including dividend, voting, redemption and liquidation rights). The $400 million issuance yielded approximately $392 million in proceeds, net of underwriting discounts and offering expenses. When declared, dividends will be payable quarterly on the 1st day of January, April, July and October of each year, commencing on January 1, 2026 (long first dividend period). In accordance with the terms of the Series B Preferred Stock, the Corporation anticipates the first dividend for the long first dividend period will be $11 million, payable on January 1, 2026 and recognized during the fourth quarter of 2025. Subsequent quarterly dividends, if declared, will be for $7 million and will be similarly recognized during the prior quarter. Refer to Note 9 to the consolidated financial statements for further discussion of the preferred stock. 
The following table summarizes the Corporation's repurchase activity during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.
| (shares in thousands) | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Repurchase Plans or Programs | Remaining Share Repurchase Authorization (a) | Total Number of Shares Purchased (b) | Average Price Paid Per Share | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total first quarter 2025 | 747 | 12,751 | 755 | $ | 65.82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total second quarter 2025 | 1,761 | 10,990 | 1,763 | 56.77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| July 1 - 31, 2025 | 1,225 | 9,765 | 1,227 | 65.27 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| August 1 - 31, 2025 | 856 | 8,909 | 856 | 67.54 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 1 - 30, 2025 | 151 | 8,758 | 151 | 70.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total third quarter 2025 | 2,232 | 8,758 | 2,234 | 66.46 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total 2025 through September 30, 2025 | 4,740 | 8,758 | 4,752 | 62.77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Maximum number of shares of common stock that may be repurchased under the publicly announced plans or programs.
(b)Consists of approximately 12,000 shares of common stock purchased related to deferred compensation plans during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and is not considered part of the Corporation's repurchase program.
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In July 2025, the Corporation announced that it intended to repurchase approximately $100 million of common stock during the third quarter of 2025, and on July 22, 2025 and August 5, 2025, the Corporation entered into Accelerated Share Repurchase transactions (ASRs) to repurchase $100 million of common stock and $50 million of common stock, respectively, which were completed in the third quarter of 2025. A total of 2.2 million shares were repurchased under the ASRs during the third quarter of 2025. 
Since the inception of the share repurchase program on November 16, 2010, a total of 107.2 million shares of common stock have been authorized for repurchase. There is no expiration date for the share repurchase program, which may be effectuated through open market repurchases, privately negotiated transactions, structured repurchase agreements with third parties and/or otherwise, including utilizing Rule 10b5-1 plans. The repurchased shares may be held as treasury stock or retired. The timing and actual amount of additional share repurchases are subject to various factors, including the Corporation's earnings generation, capital needs to fund future loan growth and market conditions.
The Corporation has a long-term Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital ratio target of approximately 10% with capital deployment. At September 30, 2025, the Corporation's estimated CET1 capital ratio was 11.90%, relatively stable from 11.89% at December 31, 2024.
The following table presents the minimum ratios required under the Basel III regulatory framework to which the Corporation is subject.
| Common equity tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets | 4.5 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets | 6.0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Total capital to risk-weighted assets | 8.0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Capital conservation buffer (a) | 2.5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital to adjusted average assets (leverage ratio) | 4.0 | ||||||||||||||||
(a)In addition to the minimum risk-based capital requirements, the Corporation is required to maintain a minimum capital conservation buffer, in the form of common equity, in order to avoid restrictions on capital distributions and discretionary bonuses.
The Corporation's capital ratios exceeded minimum regulatory requirements as follows:
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | Capital/Assets | Ratio | Capital/Assets | Ratio | |||||||||||||||||||
| Common equity tier 1 (a), (b) | $ | 8,657 | 11.90 | % | $ | 8,667 | 11.89 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Tier 1 risk-based (a), (b) | 9,049 | 12.44 | 9,061 | 12.43 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total risk-based (a) | 10,271 | 14.12 | 10,363 | 14.21 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Leverage (a) | 9,049 | 11.23 | 9,061 | 11.08 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Common shareholders' equity | 7,037 | 9.09 | 6,149 | 7.75 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tangible common equity (b) | 6,397 | 8.34 | 5,508 | 7.00 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Risk-weighted assets (a) | 72,757 | 72,903 | |||||||||||||||||||||
(a)September 30, 2025 capital, risk-weighted assets and ratios are estimated.
(b)See Supplemental Financial Data section for reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures and regulatory ratios.
Common shareholders’ equity at September 30, 2025 included $2.3 billion in accumulated other comprehensive losses, with approximately $1.9 billion of those losses relating to balances recorded in total assets, comprised of valuation adjustments to available-for-sale securities and pension assets, as well as related deferred tax assets. These amounts impacted the common shareholders’ equity ratio at September 30, 2025 by 263 basis points; the impact on the tangible common equity ratio using the same calculation method was 266 basis points. Average common shareholders' equity and return on average common shareholders' equity for the three months ended September 30, 2025 was $6.8 billion and 10.20%, respectively, compared to $6.3 billion and 10.27%, respectively, for the three months ended December 31, 2024.
Basel III Endgame Framework
On July 27, 2023, the federal banking agencies issued a notice of proposed rulemaking, commonly referred to as Basel III Endgame (the Capital Proposal) that would significantly increase the capital requirements applicable to large banking organizations with total assets of $100 billion or more. The Capital Proposal would align the regulatory capital calculation and the calculation of risk-weighted assets across large banking organizations subject to the Capital Proposal and require Category III and IV banking organizations to include most components of accumulated other comprehensive income (AOCI), including net unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities, in their regulatory capital ratios. 
As of September 30, 2025, the Corporation had total assets of $77.4 billion; therefore, the Capital Proposal would not apply to the Corporation as currently proposed. There remains significant uncertainty regarding the finalization and implementation of the Capital Proposal, and the Corporation will continue to monitor developments related thereto. If the Corporation becomes subject to the requirements of the Capital Proposal in the future or becomes subject to any other new laws or regulations related to capital and liquidity, such requirements could limit the Corporation’s ability to pay dividends or make 
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share repurchases or require the Corporation to reduce business levels or to raise capital, which would have a material adverse effect on the Corporation’s financial condition and results of operations. If subject to the Capital Proposal, the estimated impact related to proposed inclusion of most components of AOCI would be an approximate 275 basis point decrease to CET1 as of September 30, 2025. 
RISK MANAGEMENT
The following updated information should be read in conjunction with the "Risk Management" section on pages F-19 through F-35 in the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report.
Credit Risk
Allowance for Credit Losses
The allowance for credit losses includes both the allowance for loan losses and the allowance for credit losses on lending-related commitments. The following table presents metrics of the allowance for credit losses and nonperforming loans.
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses as a percentage of total loans | 1.43 | % | 1.44 | % | |||||||
| Allowance for credit losses as a multiple of total nonperforming loans | 2.8x | 2.4x | |||||||||
The allowance for credit losses was stable compared to December 31, 2024, totaling $725 million at September 30, 2025 and reflecting the impact of relatively stable credit performance as well as elevated levels of economic uncertainty. 
CECL Forecast and Economic Variables at September 30, 2025
The economic forecasts informing the CECL model reflected a marginally improved outlook from those used at June 30, 2025, with a rebound in economic growth coinciding with a softening labor market amid continuing uncertainties from ongoing and rapid changes in domestic and foreign economic policies. At September 30, 2025, the impact of potential additional tariff increases and changes to federal government operations were still unclear, creating challenges to economic forecasting. The FRB was assumed to gradually lower interest rates over the projection period as they remained vigilant toward inflation. Consumer spending growth continued to moderate amid uneven, albeit continued, growth of the real economy. Inflation was anticipated to hold above the FRB's target in 2026, then gradually moderate as transitory upward pressures on prices fade. Energy prices were projected to hold below levels seen at the close of the first quarter of 2025, with supply outpacing demand and U.S. crude production holding near a record high. Residential real estate property prices were expected to rise at more moderate rates, while commercial real estate prices continued to face headwinds, both of which reflected the long and variable lags through which the FRB's restrictive monetary policy affect the real economy.
Downside risks to growth from trade conflicts, cost-of-living pressures on household finances and less expansionary fiscal policy were projected to collectively contribute to growth holding below its 2024 pace for the remainder of 2025 and into 2026. Reduced demand for office space and subdued economic activity in the central business districts of major metro areas are also expected to persist as drags on the broader economy. Demand for labor has cooled as businesses concentrate on investment in AI-related equipment and software. These headwinds are expected to be partially offset by the expansionary effects of fiscal policies enacted during the third quarter of 2025 as well as future policies that, at September 30, 2025, seemed likely to be enacted. 
These factors shaped the 2-year reasonable and supportable forecasts used by the Corporation in its CECL estimate at September 30, 2025. The U.S. economy was projected to grow at a below-trend rate through third quarter 2026 before gradually normalizing to its trend growth rate. The unemployment rate was expected to hold below 5%, while interest rate forecasts reflected market expectations and guidance provided by the FRB during the third quarter of 2025. The following table summarizes select variables representative of the economic forecasts used to develop the CECL estimate at September 30, 2025.
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| Economic Variable | Base Forecast | ||||
| Real GDP growth | Growth increases to 2.3% in first quarter 2027 before moderating to 1.9% annualized by third quarter 2027. | ||||
| Unemployment rate | Ranges between 4.3% and 4.5% throughout the forecast period. | ||||
| Spread of Corporate BBB bond to 10-year Treasury bond | Spread widens to 1.9% by third quarter 2026 and remains steady throughout the remainder of the forecast period. | ||||
| Oil Prices | Prices generally range between $61 and $65 per barrel over the forecast period. | ||||
Due to the high level of uncertainty regarding assumptions used as inputs to the forecast, the Corporation evaluated a range of economic scenarios, including more benign and more severe economic forecasts. In a more severe scenario, real GDP was projected to contract through second quarter 2026, subsequently recovering to growth of 1.6% by the end of the forecast period. In this scenario, oil prices fell to $41 per barrel by fourth quarter 2026, followed by an increase to $54 per barrel by third quarter 2027, while the unemployment rate remained elevated through the forecast period. Selecting the more severe forecast would result in an increase in the quantitative calculation of the allowance for credit losses of approximately $331 million as of September 30, 2025. However, factoring in model overlays and qualitative adjustments could result in a materially different estimate under a more severe scenario. The Corporation monitors evolving economic conditions for impacts to its allowance for credit losses.
Allowance for Loan Losses
The allowance for loan losses represents management’s estimates of current expected credit losses in the Corporation’s loan portfolio. The allowance for loan losses, which totaled $686 million at September 30, 2025, decreased $4 million from $690 million at December 31, 2024. 
Collective loss estimates are determined by applying reserve factors, designed to estimate current expected credit losses, to amortized cost balances over the remaining contractual life of the collectively evaluated portfolio. Loans with similar risk characteristics are aggregated into homogeneous pools. The allowance for loan losses also includes qualitative adjustments to bring the allowance to the level management believes is appropriate based on factors that have not otherwise been fully accounted for, including adjustments for foresight risk, input imprecisions and model imprecision. Credit losses for loans that no longer share risk characteristics with the loan pools are estimated on an individual basis. Individual credit loss estimates are typically performed for nonaccrual loans and are based on one of several methods, including the estimated fair value of the underlying collateral, observable market value of similar debt or the present value of expected cash flows.    
Allowance for Credit Losses on Lending-Related Commitments
The allowance for credit losses on lending-related commitments estimates current expected credit losses on collective pools of letters of credit and unused commitments to extend credit based on reserve factors, determined in a manner similar to business loans, multiplied by a probability of draw estimate based on historical experience and credit risk, applied to commitment amounts. The allowance for credit losses on lending-related commitments totaled $39 million and $35 million at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
For additional information regarding the allowance for credit losses, refer to the "Critical Accounting Estimates" section and pages F-49 through F-50 in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements of the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report.
Nonperforming Assets
Nonperforming assets include loans on nonaccrual status and foreclosed assets. The following table presents a summary of nonperforming assets and past due loans.
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| (dollar amounts in millions) | September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| Total nonperforming loans | $ | 258 | $ | 308 | |||||||
| Foreclosed property | 2 | — | |||||||||
| Total nonperforming assets | 260 | 308 | |||||||||
| Nonperforming loans as a percentage of total loans | 0.51 | % | 0.61 | % | |||||||
| Nonperforming assets as a percentage of total loans and foreclosed property | 0.51 | 0.61 | |||||||||
| Loans past due 90 days or more and still accruing | $ | 14 | $ | 44 | |||||||
Nonperforming assets decreased $48 million to $260 million at September 30, 2025 from $308 million at December 31, 2024, which included decreases of $49 million in nonaccrual business loans and $1 million in nonaccrual retail loans. Nonperforming loans were 0.51% of total loans at September 30, 2025, compared to 0.61% at December 31, 2024. For further information regarding the composition of nonperforming loans, refer to Note 4 to the consolidated financial statements.
The following table presents a summary of changes in nonaccrual loans.
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | September 30, 2025 | June 30, 2025 | March 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Balance at beginning of period | $ | 248 | $ | 301 | $ | 308 | |||||||||||
| Loans transferred to nonaccrual (a) | 55 | 19 | 43 | ||||||||||||||
| Nonaccrual loan gross charge-offs | (45) | (31) | (32) | ||||||||||||||
| Loans transferred to accrual status (a) | (8) | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Nonaccrual loans sold | (17) | — | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| Payments/other (b) | 25 | (41) | (17) | ||||||||||||||
| Balance at end of period | $ | 258 | $ | 248 | $ | 301 | |||||||||||
(a)Based on an analysis of nonaccrual loans with book balances greater than $2 million.
(b)Includes net changes related to nonaccrual loans with balances less than or equal to $2 million, payments on nonaccrual loans with book balances greater than $2 million and transfers of nonaccrual loans to foreclosed property.
There were six borrowers with a balance greater than $2 million, totaling $55 million, transferred to nonaccrual status in third quarter 2025, compared to eight borrowers totaling $19 million in second quarter 2025 and five borrowers totaling $43 million in first quarter 2025. For further information about the composition of loans transferred to nonaccrual during third quarter 2025, refer to the nonaccrual information by industry category table below.
The following table presents the composition of nonaccrual loans by balance and the related number of borrowers at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | Number of Borrowers | Balance | Number of Borrowers | Balance | |||||||||||||||||||
| Under $2 million | 499 | $ | 75 | 490 | $ | 68 | |||||||||||||||||
| $2 million - $5 million | 17 | 50 | 18 | 64 | |||||||||||||||||||
| $5 million - $10 million | 6 | 48 | 5 | 33 | |||||||||||||||||||
| $10 million - $25 million | 5 | 85 | 6 | 112 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Greater than $25 million | — | — | 1 | 31 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 527 | $ | 258 | 520 | $ | 308 | |||||||||||||||||
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The following table presents a summary of nonaccrual loans at September 30, 2025 as well as loans transferred to nonaccrual and net loan charge-offs (recoveries) for the three months ended September 30, 2025, based on North American Industry Classification System categories.
| (dollar amounts in millions) | September 30, 2025 | Three Months Ended September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nonaccrual Loans | Loans Transferred to Nonaccrual (a) | Net Loan Charge-Offs (Recoveries) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Industry Category | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Health Care & Social Assistance | $ | 51 | 20 | % | $ | 8 | 14 | % | $ | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential Mortgage | 34 | 13 | 2 | 4 | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Information & Communication | 32 | 12 | 18 | 33 | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Real Estate & Home Builders | 25 | 10 | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manufacturing | 23 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wholesale Trade | 16 | 6 | 19 | 35 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retail Trade | 13 | 5 | — | — | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Utilities | 12 | 4 | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Services | 12 | 5 | — | — | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arts, Entertainment & Recreation | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other (b) | 31 | 12 | — | — | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 258 | 100 | % | $ | 55 | 100 | % | $ | 32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Based on an analysis of nonaccrual loans with book balances greater than $2 million.
(b)Other category includes other industry categories with smaller impacts, as well as consumer, excluding residential mortgage and certain personal purpose nonaccrual loans and net charge-offs.
Loans past due 90 days or more and still accruing interest generally represent loans that are well-collateralized and in the process of collection. Loans past due 90 days or more were $14 million at September 30, 2025, compared to $44 million at December 31, 2024. Loans past due 30-89 days decreased $93 million to $126 million at September 30, 2025, compared to $219 million at December 31, 2024. Loans past due 30 days or more and still accruing interest as a percentage of total loans were 0.28% and 0.52% at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. An aging analysis of loans included in Note 4 to the consolidated financial statements provides further information about the balances comprising past due loans.
The following table presents a summary of total criticized loans. 
| (dollar amounts in millions) | September 30, 2025 | June 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||
| Total criticized loans | $ | 2,657 | $ | 2,745 | $ | 2,530 | |||||||||||
| As a percentage of total loans | 5.2 | % | 5.4 | % | 5.0 | % | |||||||||||
The Corporation's criticized list is consistent with the Special Mention, Substandard and Doubtful categories defined by regulatory authorities. Criticized loans on nonaccrual status are individually subjected to quarterly credit quality reviews, and the Corporation may establish specific allowances for such loans. A table of loans by credit quality indicator included in Note 4 to the consolidated financial statements provides further information about the balances comprising total criticized loans. Criticized loans increased $127 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.
Concentrations of Credit Risk
Concentrations of credit risk may exist when a number of borrowers are engaged in similar activities, or activities in the same geographic region, and have similar economic characteristics that would cause them to be similarly impacted by changes in economic or other conditions. The Corporation has concentrations of credit risk within the commercial real estate and automotive industries. All other industry concentrations, as defined by management, individually represented less than 10% of total loans at September 30, 2025.
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Commercial Real Estate Lending
At September 30, 2025, the Corporation's commercial real estate portfolio represented 35% of total loans. The following table summarizes the Corporation's commercial real estate loan portfolio by loan category.
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | Commercial Real Estate business line (a) | Other (b) | Total | Commercial Real Estate business line (a) | Other (b) | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Real estate construction loans | $ | 2,545 | $ | 304 | $ | 2,849 | $ | 3,358 | $ | 322 | $ | 3,680 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage loans | 6,766 | 8,424 | 15,190 | 6,044 | 8,449 | 14,493 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total commercial real estate | $ | 9,311 | $ | 8,728 | $ | 18,039 | $ | 9,402 | $ | 8,771 | $ | 18,173 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a)Primarily loans to real estate developers.
(b)Primarily loans secured by owner-occupied real estate.
The Corporation limits risk inherent in its commercial real estate lending activities by monitoring borrowers directly involved in the commercial real estate markets and adhering to conservative policies on loan-to-value ratios for such loans, which are based on third-party appraisals that are performed at the time of origination in accordance with regulatory requirements as well as generally at the time of renewal. Per Interagency guidelines, the Corporation may also require an updated appraisal or valuation when economic, financial or market conditions may have resulted in deterioration of the prior appraisal's property value conclusions. Commercial real estate loans, consisting of real estate construction and commercial mortgage loans, totaled $18.0 billion at September 30, 2025. Commercial real estate loans made to borrowers in the Commercial Real Estate business line, which includes loans to real estate developers, totaled $9.3 billion, or 52% of total commercial real estate loans, a decrease of $91 million compared to December 31, 2024. 
The Commercial Real Estate business line at September 30, 2025 was predominantly secured by multi-family and industrial properties, comprising 49% and 29% of the Corporation's portfolio, respectively, with only 4% secured by office properties. Commercial real estate loans in other business lines totaled $8.7 billion, or 48% of total commercial real estate loans, at September 30, 2025, a decrease of $43 million compared to December 31, 2024. These loans consisted primarily of owner-occupied commercial mortgages, which bear credit characteristics similar to non-commercial real estate business loans. Generally, loans previously reported as real estate construction are classified as commercial mortgage loans upon receipt of a certificate of occupancy.
The real estate construction loan portfolio primarily contains loans made to long-tenured customers with satisfactory completion experience. Criticized real estate construction loans in the Commercial Real Estate business line totaled $89 million at September 30, 2025 compared to $36 million at December 31, 2024. In other business lines, there were no criticized real estate construction loans at September 30, 2025 compared to $2 million at December 31, 2024. There were no net charge-offs of real estate construction loans for the three-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and June 30, 2025. For the nine months ended September 30, 2025, real estate construction loan net charge-offs were $7 million, compared to no net charge-offs for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
Commercial mortgage loans are loans where the primary collateral is a lien on any real property and are primarily loans secured by owner-occupied real estate. Real property is generally considered primary collateral if the value of that collateral represents more than 50% of the commitment at loan approval. Loans in the commercial mortgage portfolio generally mature within three to five years. 
Criticized commercial mortgage loans in the Commercial Real Estate business line totaled $466 million and $379 million at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. In other business lines, $530 million and $694 million of commercial mortgage loans were criticized at September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. There were no commercial mortgage net charge-offs for the three months ended September 30, 2025 compared to $2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025. For the nine months ended September 30, 2025, commercial mortgage net charge-offs were $8 million, compared to $14 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
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Automotive Lending - Dealer
The following table presents a summary of automotive dealership loans.
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | Loans Outstanding | Percent of Total Loans | Loans Outstanding | Percent of Total Loans | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dealer: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Floor plan | $ | 1,920 | $ | 2,279 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Other | 3,198 | 3,234 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total dealer | $ | 5,118 | 10.1 | % | $ | 5,513 | 10.9 | % | |||||||||||||||
Substantially all dealer loans are in the National Dealer Services business line and primarily include floor plan financing and other loans to automotive dealerships. Floor plan loans, included in commercial loans in the Consolidated Balance Sheets, totaled $1.9 billion at September 30, 2025, a decrease of $359 million compared to $2.3 billion at December 31, 2024. At both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, other loans to automotive dealers in the National Dealer Service business line totaled $3.2 billion, including $1.9 billion and $1.8 billion of owner-occupied commercial real estate mortgage loans for September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
There were no nonaccrual dealer loans at both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. Additionally, there were no net charge-offs of dealer loans during the three-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and June 30, 2025, nor during the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
Automotive Lending - Production
The following table presents a summary of loans to borrowers involved with automotive production.
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (in millions) | Loans Outstanding | Percent of Total Loans | Loans Outstanding | Percent of Total Loans | |||||||||||||||||||
| Production: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic | $ | 498 | $ | 499 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign | 257 | 265 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total production | $ | 755 | 1.5 | % | $ | 764 | 1.5 | % | |||||||||||||||
Loans to borrowers involved with automotive production, primarily Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, totaled $755 million at September 30, 2025 and $764 million at December 31, 2024. These borrowers have faced, and could face in the future, financial difficulties due to disruptions in auto production, issues with supply chains and logistics operations and impacts resulting from labor union strikes. As such, management continues to monitor this portfolio.
There were no nonaccrual loans to borrowers involved with automotive production at both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. There were $1 million in automotive production loan net recoveries during the three months ended September 30, 2025 compared to none for the three months ended June 30, 2025. Automotive production loan net recoveries totaled $1 million for both the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and 2024.
Residential Real Estate Lending
At September 30, 2025, residential real estate loans represented 7% of total loans. The following table summarizes the Corporation's residential mortgage and home equity loan portfolios by geographic market.
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | Residential Mortgage Loans | % of Total | Home Equity Loans | % of Total | Residential Mortgage Loans | % of Total | Home Equity Loans | % of Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Geographic market: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan | $ | 616 | 32 | % | $ | 404 | 22 | % | $ | 576 | 30 | % | $ | 420 | 23 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| California | 862 | 45 | 940 | 52 | 889 | 46 | 931 | 52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas | 277 | 14 | 370 | 21 | 273 | 14 | 365 | 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Markets | 183 | 9 | 83 | 5 | 191 | 10 | 86 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 1,938 | 100 | % | $ | 1,797 | 100 | % | $ | 1,929 | 100 | % | $ | 1,802 | 100 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential real estate loans, which consist of traditional residential mortgages and home equity loans and lines of credit, totaled $3.7 billion at September 30, 2025. The residential real estate portfolio is principally located within the Corporation's primary geographic markets. Substantially all residential real estate loans past due 90 days or more are placed on 
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nonaccrual status, and substantially all junior lien home equity loans that are current or less than 90 days past due are placed on nonaccrual status if full collection of the senior position is in doubt. At no later than 180 days past due, such loans are charged off to current appraised values less costs to sell. 
Residential mortgages totaled $1.9 billion at September 30, 2025, and were primarily large, variable-rate mortgages originated and retained for certain private banking relationship customers. Of the $1.9 billion of residential mortgage loans outstanding, $34 million were on nonaccrual status at September 30, 2025, a decrease of $3 million compared to December 31, 2024. The home equity portfolio totaled $1.8 billion at September 30, 2025, of which 95% was outstanding under primarily variable-rate, interest-only home equity lines of credit and 5% were in amortizing status. Of the $1.8 billion of home equity loans outstanding, $29 million were on nonaccrual status at September 30, 2025. A majority of the home equity portfolio was secured by junior liens at September 30, 2025. 
Loans to Non-Depository Financial Institutions
Loans to non-depository financial institutions (NDFIs) totaled $2.7 billion, or 5% of total loans, at September 30, 2025, relatively stable compared to December 31, 2024. At September 30, 2025, 77% of loans to NDFIs were to private equity funds, 17% to various other categories and 6% to consumer credit intermediaries. Like the Corporation’s other commercial loans, loans to NDFIs are underwritten using a comprehensive analysis of the borrower’s operations, which could include the borrower’s business model and industry characteristics, periodic review of financial statements, proforma financial condition and the borrower’s sources and uses of funds.  
Energy Lending
The Corporation has a portfolio of Energy loans that are included entirely in commercial loans in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Customers in the Corporation's Energy business line are engaged in exploration and production (E&P) and midstream. E&P generally includes activities such as searching for potential oil and gas fields, drilling exploratory wells and operating active wells. Commitments to E&P borrowers are generally subject to semi-annual borrowing base re-determinations based on a variety of factors including updated prices (reflecting market and competitive conditions), energy reserve levels and the impact of hedging. The midstream sector is generally involved in the transportation, storage and marketing of crude and/or refined oil and gas products. Approximately 86% of loans in the Energy business line are Shared National Credits (SNC), which are facilities greater than or equal to $100 million shared by three or more federally supervised institutions, reflecting the Corporation's focus on larger middle market companies that have financing needs that generally exceed internal individual borrower credit risk limits. The Corporation seeks to develop full relationships with SNC borrowers. 
The following table summarizes information about loans in the Corporation's Energy business line.
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| (dollar amounts in millions) | Outstandings | Nonaccrual | Criticized (a) | Outstandings | Nonaccrual | Criticized (a) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exploration and production (E&P) | $ | 1,101 | 81 | % | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 1,188 | 80 | % | $ | — | $ | — | |||||||||||||
| Midstream | 262 | 19 | — | — | 298 | 20 | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Energy business line | $ | 1,363 | 100 | % | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 1,486 | 100 | % | $ | — | $ | — | |||||||||||||
(a)    Includes nonaccrual loans.
Loans in the Energy business line totaled $1.4 billion, or 3% of total loans, at September 30, 2025, a decrease of $123 million compared to December 31, 2024. Total exposure, including unused commitments to extend credit and letters of credit, was $3.5 billion at September 30, 2025 (a utilization rate of 37%) and $3.5 billion at December 31, 2024 (a utilization rate of 41%). There were no nonaccrual or criticized Energy loans at both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024. There were no Energy net charge-offs for the three-month periods ended September 30, 2025 and June 30, 2025, nor the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to net recoveries of $9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
 Leveraged Loans
Certain loans in the Corporation's commercial portfolio are considered leveraged transactions. These loans are typically used for mergers, acquisitions, business recapitalizations, refinancing and equity buyouts. To help mitigate the risk associated with these loans, the Corporation focuses on middle market companies with highly capable management teams, strong sponsors and solid track records of financial performance. Industries prone to cyclical downturns and acquisitions with a high degree of integration risk are generally avoided. Other considerations include the sufficiency of collateral, the level of balance sheet leverage and the adequacy of financial covenants. During the underwriting process, cash flows are stress-tested to evaluate the borrowers' abilities to handle economic downturns and an increase in interest rates. 
The FDIC defines higher-risk commercial and industrial (HR C&I) loans for assessment purposes as loans generally with leverage of four times total debt to earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation (EBITDA) as well as three times senior debt to EBITDA, excluding certain collateralized loans. 
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The following tables summarize information about HR C&I loans, which represented 6% of total loans at both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
| (in millions) | September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| Outstandings | $ | 3,045 | $ | 2,836 | |||||||
| Criticized | 396 | 300 | |||||||||
There were no net charge-offs of leveraged loans during the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $6 million in net charge-offs for the three months ended June 30, 2025. Net charge-offs of leveraged loans for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 totaled $8 million, compared to $23 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
Market and Liquidity Risk
Market risk represents the risk of loss due to adverse movement in prices, including interest rates, foreign exchange rates, commodity prices and equity prices. Liquidity risk represents the risk that the Corporation does not have sufficient access to funds to maintain its normal operations at all times or does not have the ability to raise or borrow funds at a reasonable cost at all times.
The Asset Liability Management Committee (ALCO) of the Corporation establishes and monitors compliance with the policies and risk limits pertaining to market and liquidity risk management activities. ALCO meets regularly to discuss and review market and liquidity risk management strategies and consists of executives and senior management from various areas of the Corporation, including treasury, finance, economics, lending, deposit gathering and risk management. Corporate Treasury helps mitigate market and liquidity risk under the direction of ALCO through the actions it takes to manage the Corporation's market, liquidity and capital positions.
The Corporation performs monthly liquidity stress testing to evaluate its ability to meet funding needs in hypothetical stressed environments. Such environments cover a series of scenarios, including both idiosyncratic and market-wide in nature, which vary in terms of duration and severity. The Corporation's evaluation as of September 30, 2025 projected that sufficient sources of liquidity were available under each series of events.
In addition to assessing liquidity risk on a consolidated basis, Corporate Treasury also monitors the parent company's liquidity and has established liquidity coverage requirements for meeting expected obligations without the support of additional dividends from subsidiaries. ALCO's policy on liquidity risk management requires the parent company to maintain sufficient liquidity to meet expected cash obligations, such as debt service, dividend payments and normal operating expenses, over a period of no less than 12 months. The Corporation had liquid assets of $1.4 billion on an unconsolidated basis at September 30, 2025.
Corporate Treasury and the Risk Division support ALCO in measuring, monitoring and managing interest rate risk as well as all other market risks. Key activities encompass: (i) providing information and analyses of the Corporation's balance sheet structure and measurement of interest rate and all other market risks; (ii) monitoring and reporting of the Corporation's positions relative to established policy limits and guidelines; (iii) developing and presenting analyses and strategies to adjust risk positions; (iv) reviewing and presenting policies and authorizations for approval; and (v) monitoring of industry trends and analytical tools to be used in the management of interest rate and all other market and liquidity risks.
Interest Rate Risk    
Net interest income is the primary source of revenue for the Corporation. Interest rate risk arises in the normal course of business due to differences in the repricing and cash flow characteristics of assets and liabilities, primarily through the Corporation's core business activities of extending loans and acquiring deposits. The Corporation's balance sheet is predominantly characterized by floating-rate loans funded by core deposits. Including the impact of interest rate swaps converting floating-rate loans to fixed, the Corporation's loan composition at September 30, 2025 was 55% fixed-rate, 34% overnight to 30-day rate, 8% 90-day and greater rates and 3% prime rate. The composition of the loan portfolio creates sensitivity to interest rate movements due to the imbalance between the faster repricing of the floating-rate loan portfolio versus deposit products. In addition, the growth and/or contraction in the Corporation's loans and deposits may lead to changes in sensitivity to interest rate movements in the absence of mitigating actions. Examples of such actions are purchasing fixed-rate investment securities, which provide liquidity and act to mitigate the inherent interest rate sensitivity, as well as hedging with interest rate swaps and options. Other mitigating factors include interest rate floors on a portion of the loan portfolio.
The Corporation actively manages its exposure to interest rate risk with the principal objective of optimizing net interest income and the economic value of equity while operating within acceptable limits established for interest rate risk and maintaining adequate levels of funding and liquidity.
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value of equity under a variety of alternative scenarios, including changes in the level, slope and shape of the yield curve utilizing multiple simulation analyses. Simulation analyses produce only estimates of net interest income as the assumptions used are inherently uncertain. Actual results may differ from simulated results due to many factors, including, but not limited to, the timing, magnitude and frequency of changes in interest rates, market conditions, regulatory impacts and management strategies.
Sensitivity of Net Interest Income to Changes in Interest Rates
The analysis of the impact of changes in interest rates on net interest income under various interest rate scenarios is management's principal risk management technique. Management models a base-case net interest income under an unchanged interest rate environment using a static balance sheet and generates sensitivity scenarios by changing certain model assumptions. Each scenario includes assumptions such as loan growth, investment security prepayment levels, depositor behavior and overall balance sheet mix and growth which are in line with historical patterns. Additionally, the analysis assumes that all loan hedges qualify for hedge accounting. Changes in actual economic activity may result in a materially different interest rate environment as well as a balance sheet structure that is different from the changes management included in its simulation analysis. Model assumptions in the sensitivity scenarios at September 30, 2025 included for the rising rate scenarios, a modest increase in loan balances and a moderate decrease in deposit balances, and for the declining rate scenarios, a modest decrease in loan balances and a moderate increase in deposit balances. In addition, both scenarios assumed loan spreads held at current levels, an incremental interest-bearing deposit beta of approximately 47%, deposit mix shifts based on historical observations, full reinvestment of securities portfolio cash flows and no additions to interest rate swaps. 
The average balance of the securities portfolio included in the analysis was $14.7 billion for the three months ended September 30, 2025 with an average yield of 2.45% and effective duration of 5.6 years.
The table below details components of the Corporation's variable-rate loan swap portfolio at September 30, 2025.
| Variable-Rate Loan Swaps | |||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | Notional Amount | Weighted Average Yield | Years to Maturity | ||||||||||||||
| Swaps under contract at September 30, 2025 (a) | $ | 22,850 | 2.58 | % | 2.5 | ||||||||||||
(a)Years to maturity calculated from a starting date of September 30, 2025.
The analysis also includes interest rate swaps that convert $5.5 billion of fixed-rate medium- and long-term debt and FHLB advances to variable rates through fair value hedges. Additionally, included in this analysis are $16.0 billion of loans that were subject to an average interest rate floor of 52 basis points at September 30, 2025. This base-case net interest income is then compared against interest rate scenarios in which short-term rates rise or decline 100 or 200 basis points (with a floor of 0%) in a linear, non-parallel fashion from the base case over 12 months, resulting in an average change of 50 or 100 basis points over the period.
The table below, as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, displays the estimated impact on net interest income during the next 12 months by relating the base case scenario results to those from the rising and declining rate scenarios described above.
| Estimated Annual Change | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | Amount | % | Amount | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Change in Interest Rates: | Change in Interest Rates: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rising 100 basis points | $ | (20) | (1) | % | Rising 100 basis points | $ | (26) | (1) | % | ||||||||||||||
| (50 basis points on average) | (50 basis points on average) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Declining 100 basis points | 3 | — | Declining 100 basis points | 12 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| (50 basis points on average) | (50 basis points on average) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rising 200 basis points | (55) | (2) | Rising 200 basis points | (67) | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||
| (100 basis points on average) | (100 basis points on average) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Declining 200 basis points | (5) | — | Declining 200 basis points | 12 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| (100 basis points on average) | (100 basis points on average) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The negative sensitivity to rising rate scenarios and positive sensitivity to declining rate scenarios was reduced from December 31, 2024 to September 30, 2025 due largely to maturities of cash flow swaps.
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deposit beta assumptions. In these rising and declining scenarios, net interest income decreased by $53 million and increased by $32 million, respectively, due to a more rapid repricing pace compared to the standard model assumptions. 
Sensitivity of Economic Value of Equity to Changes in Interest Rates
In addition to the simulation analysis on net interest income, an economic value of equity analysis provides an alternative view of the interest rate risk position. The economic value of equity is the difference between the estimate of the economic value of the Corporation's financial assets, liabilities and off-balance sheet instruments, derived through discounting cash flows based on actual rates at the end of the period, and the estimated economic value after applying the estimated impact of rate movements. The Corporation primarily monitors the percentage change on the base-case economic value of equity. The economic value of equity analysis is based on an immediate parallel 100 or 200 basis point shock with a floor of 0%.
The table below, as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, displays the estimated impact on the economic value of equity from the interest rate scenario described above.
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (dollar amounts in millions) | Amount | % | Amount | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Change in Interest Rates: | Change in Interest Rates: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rising 100 basis points | $ | (302) | (2) | % | Rising 100 basis points | $ | (503) | (4) | % | ||||||||||||||
| Declining 100 basis points | 406 | 3 | Declining 100 basis points | 598 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rising 200 basis points | (700) | (5) | Rising 200 basis points | (1,066) | (9) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Declining 200 basis points | 663 | 5 | Declining 200 basis points | 1,097 | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
The sensitivity of the economic value of equity to rising and declining rates decreased from December 31, 2024 to September 30, 2025 primarily due to a declining notional amount of cash flow swaps and a smaller securities portfolio.
BSBY Cessation
Bloomberg discontinued publishing BSBY on November 15, 2024. As a result, the Corporation was required to “de-designate” $7.0 billion of interest rate swaps used in cash flow hedges of certain BSBY-indexed loans and reclassify amounts recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income into earnings. For each de-designated swap, settlement of interest payments and changes in fair value were recorded as risk management hedging losses within other noninterest income instead of net interest income until re-designation. All impacted swaps were re-designated as of April 1, 2024.
BSBY cessation positively impacted interest income on commercial loans by $19 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025, compared to $23 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025. Refer to Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements for further discussion of re-designated interest rate hedges.
The Corporation has substantially completed its BSBY transition efforts and effectively all BSBY-based contracts have transitioned to other reference rates. Any BSBY-based contract that did not transition to SOFR or other indices in 2024 are expected to either not reprice prior to maturing in 2025 or convert to SOFR or another index at their next repricing date. 
 Sources of Liquidity
The Corporation maintains a liquidity position that it believes will adequately satisfy its financial obligations while taking into account potential commitment draws and deposit run-off that may occur in the normal course of business. The majority of the Corporation's balance sheet is funded by customer deposits. Cash flows from loan repayments, increases in deposit accounts (including brokered deposits), activity in the securities portfolio and wholesale funding channels serve as the Corporation's primary liquidity sources.
The Corporation satisfies incremental liquidity needs with either liquid assets or external funding sources. Available liquidity includes cash, FHLB advances and FRB borrowing through the discount window, as well as the market value of unencumbered investment securities, which, if needed, could be utilized as collateral for FHLB advances and FRB borrowings. The Corporation has pledged a portion of its investment securities portfolio to access wholesale funding as needed.
The Bank is a member of the FHLB of Dallas, Texas, which provides short- and long-term funding to its members through advances collateralized by real estate-related loans, certain government agency-backed securities and other eligible assets. Actual borrowing capacity is contingent on the amount of collateral pledged to the FHLB and the fair value of pledged assets, as well as applicable FHLB haircuts.
At September 30, 2025, the Bank had pledged real estate-related loans totaling $22.0 billion and investment securities totaling $1.8 billion to the FHLB, which provided for up to $13.3 billion of collateralized borrowing with the FHLB.
The FRB provides liquidity through its discount window, where banks may borrow funds based on the discounted fair value of pledged assets. At September 30, 2025, the Bank pledged $20.6 billion of loans to the FRB, which provided for up to $17.2 billion of collateralized borrowing through the discount window.
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The table below details the Corporation's sources of available liquidity at September 30, 2025.
| (dollar amounts in millions) | Total Capacity | Borrowings Outstanding | Available Liquidity | ||||||||||||||
| Cash on deposit with FRB (a) | $ | 3,914 | |||||||||||||||
| Unencumbered investment securities (b) | 11,594 | ||||||||||||||||
| Secured borrowing facilities: | |||||||||||||||||
| FHLB | $ | 13,299 | $ | 3,000 | 10,299 | ||||||||||||
| FRB | 17,174 | — | 17,174 | ||||||||||||||
| Total available liquidity | $ | 42,981 | |||||||||||||||
(a)Included in interest-bearing deposits with banks on the Consolidated Balance Sheet.
(b)Market value of available-for-sale investment securities that the Corporation can pledge or sell without third-party consent.
The Corporation may also use brokered deposits and external debt as additional sources of funding, and maintains a shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission through which it may issue securities. The ability of the Corporation and the Bank to raise unsecured funding at competitive rates is impacted by rating agencies' views of the credit quality, liquidity, capital, earnings and other relevant factors related to the Corporation and the Bank. As of September 30, 2025, the three major rating agencies had assigned the following ratings to long-term senior unsecured obligations of the Corporation and the Bank, as well as long-term deposits at the Bank. A security rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time by the assigning rating agency. Each rating should be evaluated independently of any other rating.
| Debt Ratings | Deposit Ratings | |||||||||||||||||||
| Comerica Incorporated | Comerica Bank | Comerica Bank | ||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | Rating | Rating | Outlook | Rating | ||||||||||||||||
| Moody’s Investors Service (a) | Baa2 | Baa2 | Stable | A2 | ||||||||||||||||
| Fitch Ratings | A- | A- | Stable | A | ||||||||||||||||
| Standard and Poor’s (a) | BBB | BBB+ | Stable | not rated | ||||||||||||||||
(a) In October 2025, following the announcement of the Merger Agreement between the Corporation and Fifth Third, Moody's Investors Service changed its outlook for Comerica Incorporated to Watch Positive, while Standard and Poor's changed its outlook for Comerica Incorporated and Comerica Bank to Watch Positive.
Deposit Concentrations and Uninsured Deposits
The Corporation's uninsured deposits are well-diversified between geographies, industries and customers. At September 30, 2025, the Retail Bank and general Middle Market segments, both highly diversified and granular, accounted for 37% and 30% of the total deposit base, respectively. Corporate Banking and Technology and Life Sciences comprised 7% and 4% of total deposits, respectively, which were the largest deposit concentrations of the more specialized business lines. 
Uninsured deposits are defined as the portion of deposit accounts in U.S. offices that exceed the FDIC insurance limit and amounts in any other uninsured investment or deposit account that are classified as deposits and are not subject to any federal or state deposit insurance regimes.
| September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||
| (Dollar amount in millions) | Amount | Percentage of total deposits | Amount | Percentage of total deposits | ||||||||||
| Total uninsured deposits, as calculated per regulatory guidelines | $ | 34,857 | 56 | % | $ | 33,387 | 52 | % | ||||||
| Less: affiliate deposits | (4,061) | (3,876) | ||||||||||||
| Total uninsured deposits, excluding affiliate deposits | $ | 30,796 | 49 | % | $ | 29,511 | 46 | % | ||||||
Time deposits otherwise uninsured, which consist of foreign office time deposits, totaled $31 million at September 30, 2025 and all mature in three months or less. Collateralized deposits, consisting of trust deposits as well as deposits of public entities and state and local government agencies, totaled $382 million at September 30, 2025, compared to $348 million at December 31, 2024.
Direct Express Debit MasterCard Program
In July 2024, the Bank received preliminary notification that, following the contract expiration on January 2, 2025, it was not selected to continue serving as financial agent supporting the Direct Express Program; however, the Treasury elected to extend the contract term for up to three years past January 2, 2025 to facilitate an orderly transition. While the length of the 
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transition is currently unknown, the Corporation believes it may take some time given the scale and complexity of the program as well as its own transition experience.
For the three months ended September 30, 2025, average deposits related to the Direct Express program were $3.7 billion, all of which were noninterest-bearing. Card fee income related to the Direct Express program was $26 million for the three months ended September 30, 2025. Noninterest expenses related to the Direct Express program for the three months ended September 30, 2025 were $33 million, consisting primarily of outside processing fee expense. The Corporation cannot currently predict the impact that the loss of this contract and the related deposits could have on its financial statements as it will be subject to many factors, including, but not limited to, the timing, costs and extent of securing any necessary alternative sources of funding. However, such impact could be material.
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CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES
The Corporation’s consolidated financial statements are prepared based on the application of accounting policies, the most significant of which are described in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements included in the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report. These policies require numerous estimates and strategic or economic assumptions, which may prove inaccurate or subject to variations. Changes in underlying factors, assumptions or estimates could have a material impact on the Corporation’s future financial condition and results of operations. At December 31, 2024, the most critical of these estimates related to the allowance for credit losses, fair value measurement, pension plan accounting and income taxes. These estimates were reviewed with the Audit Committee of the Corporation’s Board of Directors and are discussed more fully on pages F-36 through F-39 in the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report. As of the date of this report, there have been no significant changes to the Corporation's critical accounting estimates as disclosed in the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report.
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SUPPLEMENTAL FINANCIAL DATA
The Corporation believes non-GAAP measures are meaningful because they reflect adjustments commonly made by management, investors, regulators and analysts to evaluate the adequacy of common equity and our performance trends. The CET1 capital ratio removes preferred stock from the Tier 1 capital ratio as defined by and calculated in conformity with bank regulations. Tangible common equity is used by the Corporation to measure the quality of capital and the return relative to balance sheet risk. The tangible common equity ratio removes the effect of intangible assets from capital and total assets. Tangible common equity per share of common stock removes the effect of intangible assets from common shareholders' equity per share of common stock. 
The following table provides a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures and regulatory ratios used in this financial review with financial measures defined by GAAP.
| (dollar amounts in millions, except per share data) | September 30, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| Common Equity Tier 1 Capital (a): | |||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital | $ | 9,049 | $ | 9,061 | |||||||
| Less: | |||||||||||
| Fixed-rate reset non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock | 392 | 394 | |||||||||
| Common equity tier 1 capital | $ | 8,657 | $ | 8,667 | |||||||
| Risk-weighted assets | $ | 72,757 | $ | 72,903 | |||||||
| Tier 1 capital ratio | 12.44 | % | 12.43 | % | |||||||
| Common equity tier 1 capital ratio | 11.90 | 11.89 | |||||||||
| Tangible Common Equity Ratio: | |||||||||||
| Total shareholders' equity | $ | 7,429 | $ | 6,543 | |||||||
| Less: | |||||||||||
| Fixed-rate reset non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock | 392 | 394 | |||||||||
| Common shareholders' equity | $ | 7,037 | $ | 6,149 | |||||||
| Less: | |||||||||||
| Goodwill | 635 | 635 | |||||||||
| Other intangible assets | 5 | 6 | |||||||||
| Tangible common equity | $ | 6,397 | $ | 5,508 | |||||||
| Total assets | $ | 77,376 | $ | 79,297 | |||||||
| Less: | |||||||||||
| Goodwill | 635 | 635 | |||||||||
| Other intangible assets | 5 | 6 | |||||||||
| Tangible assets | $ | 76,736 | $ | 78,656 | |||||||
| Common equity ratio | 9.09 | % | 7.75 | % | |||||||
| Tangible common equity ratio | 8.34 | 7.00 | |||||||||
| Tangible Common Equity per Share of Common Stock: | |||||||||||
| Common shareholders' equity | $ | 7,037 | $ | 6,149 | |||||||
| Tangible common equity | 6,397 | 5,508 | |||||||||
| Shares of common stock outstanding (in millions) | 128 | 131 | |||||||||
| Common shareholders' equity per share of common stock | $ | 55.15 | $ | 46.79 | |||||||
| Tangible common equity per share of common stock | 50.14 | 41.91 | |||||||||
(a)September 30, 2025 ratios are estimated.
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ITEM 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
Quantitative and qualitative disclosures for the current period can be found in the "Market and Liquidity Risk" section of "Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations."
ITEM 4. Controls and Procedures
(a)Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Corporation maintains a set of disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act)) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Corporation in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission's rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Corporation's management, including the Corporation's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management has evaluated, with the participation of the Corporation's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, the effectiveness of the Corporation's disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report (the Evaluation Date). Based on the evaluation, the Corporation's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of the Evaluation Date, the Corporation's disclosure controls and procedures are effective.
(b)Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. During the period to which this report relates, there have not been any changes in the Corporation's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that have materially affected, or that are reasonably likely to materially affect, such controls.
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. Legal Proceedings
For information regarding the Corporation's legal proceedings, see "Part I. Item 1. Note 14 – Contingent Liabilities," which is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 1A. Risk Factors
Other than the risk factors set forth below, there are no material changes to the Corporation's risk factors previously disclosed in response to Part I, Item 1A. of the Corporation's 2024 Annual Report. Such risk factors are incorporated herein by reference.
Risks Relating to the Merger with Fifth Third
We have identified certain additional risk factors in connection with the Merger Agreement and the proposed Merger. These risks and the other risks associated with the proposed Merger will be more fully discussed in the joint proxy statement/prospectus that will be included in the registration statement on Form S-4 that Fifth Third intends to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the Merger.
The consummation of the Merger is contingent upon the satisfaction of a number of conditions, including stockholder and regulatory approvals, that may be outside either party’s control and that either party may be unable to satisfy or obtain or which may delay the consummation of the Merger or result in the imposition of conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits from the Merger or cause the parties to abandon the Merger.
Consummation of the Merger is contingent upon the satisfaction of a number of conditions, some of which are beyond either party’s control, including, among others:
•adoption of the Merger Agreement by the Corporation’s stockholders and approval of the issuance of shares of Fifth Third common stock by Fifth Third’s shareholders;
•authorization for listing on the NASDAQ of the shares of Fifth Third common stock (and depositary shares in respect of new Fifth Third preferred stock) to be issued in connection with the Merger;
•the receipt of required regulatory approvals;
•effectiveness of the registration statement on Form S-4 to be filed by Fifth Third in connection with the Merger; and
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•the absence of any order, injunction, decree or other legal restraint preventing the completion of the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement.
Each party’s obligation to complete the Merger is also subject to certain additional customary conditions, including:
•subject to certain exceptions, the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the other party;
•performance in all material respects by the other party of its obligations under the Merger Agreement; and
•receipt by such party of an opinion from its counsel to the effect that the Corporation’s merger with and into Fifth Third Financial Corporation will qualify as a “reorganization” within the meaning of Section 368(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
These conditions to the closing of the Merger may not be fulfilled in a timely manner, or at all, and, accordingly, the Merger may not be completed. In addition, the parties can mutually decide to terminate the Merger Agreement at any time, before or after receipt of the requisite approvals by our shareholders or Fifth Third’s shareholders, or either party may elect to terminate the Merger Agreement in certain other circumstances.
As a condition to granting required regulatory approvals, governmental entities may impose conditions, limitations or costs, require divestitures or place restrictions on the conduct of the combined company after the closing of the Merger. Such conditions or changes and the process of obtaining regulatory approvals could, among other things, have the effect of delaying completion of the Merger or of imposing additional costs or limitations on the combined company following the Merger, any of which may have an adverse effect on us or the combined company following the Merger.
Either party may also be subject to lawsuits challenging the Merger, and adverse rulings in these lawsuits may delay or prevent the Mergers from being completed or require either party to incur significant costs to defend or settle these lawsuits. Any delay in completing the Merger could cause the combined company not to realize, or to be delayed in realizing, some or all of the benefits that we expect to achieve if the Merger is successfully completed within its expected time frame.
We expect to incur substantial expenses related to the Merger.
We have incurred and expect to incur a number of costs associated with the Merger and the integration of our business with Fifth Third’s business.  These costs include financial advisory, legal, and other advisory fees, severance/employee benefit‐related costs, public company filing fees and other regulatory fees and financial printing and other related costs. There are also a large number of processes, policies, procedures, operations, technologies and systems that may need to be integrated.
While we have assumed that a certain level of costs will be incurred, there are many factors beyond our control that could affect the total amount or the timing of the integration expenses. Moreover, many of the expenses that we will incur are, by their nature, difficult to estimate accurately. These expenses could, particularly in the near term, exceed the savings that we expect to achieve from the elimination of duplicative expenses and the realization of economies of scale. These integration expenses may result in charges against earnings as a result of the Merger or the integration of our business with Fifth Third’s business, and the amount and timing of such charges are uncertain at present.
While the Merger is pending, we will be subject to business uncertainties and contractual restrictions that could adversely affect our business and operations.
Uncertainty about the effect of the Merger on employees, customers, vendors and other persons with whom we have a business relationship may have an adverse effect on our business, operations and stock price. Existing customers, vendors and other business partners of ours could decide to no longer do business with us before the completion of the Merger or with the combined company after the Merger is completed, reducing its anticipated benefits. We are also subject to certain restrictions on the conduct of our business while the Merger is pending. As a result, certain projects may be delayed or abandoned and business decisions could be deferred. Employee retention may be challenging for us before completion of the Merger, as certain employees may experience uncertainty about their future roles with the combined company following the Merger, and these retention challenges will require us to incur additional expenses in order to retain key employees. If key employees depart because of issues relating to the uncertainty and difficulty of integration or a desire not to remain with the combined company following the Merger, the benefits of the Merger could be materially diminished.    
ITEM 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
For information regarding the Corporation's purchase of equity securities, see "Part I. Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Capital," which is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 5. Other Information
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ITEM 6. Exhibits
| Exhibit No. | Description | |||||||
| 2.1 | Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 5, 2025, by and among Fifth Third Bancorp, Fifth Third Financial Corporation, Comerica Incorporated and Comerica Holdings Incorporated (filed as Exhibit 2.1 to the Corporation's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 9, 2025, and incorporated herein by reference). | |||||||
| 3.1 | Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Comerica Incorporated (filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Corporation's Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 4, 2010, and incorporated herein by reference). | |||||||
| 3.2 | Certificate of Amendment to Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Comerica Incorporated (filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Corporation's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2011, and incorporated herein by reference). | |||||||
| 3.3 | Amended and Restated Bylaws of Comerica Incorporated (filed as Exhibit 3.3 to the Corporation's Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 3, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference). | |||||||
| 3.4 | Certificate of Designations of 6.875% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B, dated August 7, 2025, of Comerica Incorporated (filed as Exhibit 3.3 to the Corporation's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on August 8, 2025, and incorporated herein by reference). | |||||||
| 4 | [In accordance with Regulation S-K Item No. 601(b)(4)(iii), the Corporation is not filing copies of instruments defining the rights of holders of long-term debt because none of those instruments authorizes debt in excess of 10% of the total assets of the registrant and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis. The Corporation hereby agrees to furnish a copy of any such instrument to the SEC upon request.] | |||||||
| 4.1 | Form of 6.875% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series B Certificate of Comerica Incorporated (included as Exhibit A to Exhibit 3.3 to the Corporation's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on August 8, 2025, and incorporated herein by reference). | |||||||
| 4.2 | Deposit Agreement, dated August 11, 2025, by and among Comerica Incorporated, Computershare Inc., Computershare Trust Company, N.A. and the holders from time to time of the depositary receipts issued thereunder (filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Corporation's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 12, 2025, and incorporated herein by reference).  | |||||||
| 4.3 | Form of Depositary Receipt (included as Exhibit A to Exhibit 4.2 to the Corporation's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 12, 2025, and incorporated herein by reference). | |||||||
| 31.1 | Chairman, President and CEO Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Periodic Report (pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002). | |||||||
| 31.2 | Senior Executive Vice President and CFO Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification of Periodic Report (pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002). | |||||||
| 32* | Section 1350 Certification of Periodic Report (pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002). | |||||||
| 101 | Financial statements from Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of the Corporation for the quarter ended September 30, 2025, formatted in Inline XBRL: (i) the Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited), (ii) the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (unaudited), (iii) the Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity (unaudited), (iv) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited) and (v) the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited). | |||||||
| 104 | The cover page from the Corporation's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2025, formatted in Inline XBRL (included in Exhibit 101). | |||||||
| * | The certification attached as Exhibit 32 is not deemed “filed” with the SEC and is not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Corporation under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, whether made before or after the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, irrespective of any general incorporation language contained in such filing. | |||||||
| † | Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement. | |||||||
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| COMERICA INCORPORATED | |||||
| (Registrant) | |||||
| /s/ Mauricio A. Ortiz | |||||
| Mauricio A. Ortiz | |||||
| Executive Vice President, | |||||
| Chief Accounting Officer, | |||||
| Controller and | |||||
| Duly Authorized Officer | |||||
Date: October 28, 2025
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