Company: CMA
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000028412-25-000108
Chunk: 5

Company: COMERICA INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 5
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erica’s ability to pay dividends or make share repurchases or require Comerica to reduce business levels or to raise capital, which would have a material adverse effect on Comerica's financial condition and results of operations.

In addition to laws and regulations focusing principally on asset thresholds, examination ratings also can affect Comerica. Adverse examination findings can result in confidential or public enforcement actions, which can affect fees, costs, operational requirements, and growth initiatives, at both Comerica and each of its subsidiary banks.

Requirements for Approval of Activities and Acquisitions

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act expanded the activities in which a bank holding company registered as a financial holding company can engage. A financial holding company may affiliate with securities firms and insurance companies and engage in activities that are financial in nature or incidental or complementary to activities that are financial in nature. Activities that are “financial in nature” include, but are not limited to: securities underwriting; securities dealing and market making; sponsoring mutual funds and investment companies (subject to regulatory requirements described below); insurance underwriting and agency; merchant banking; and activities that the FRB determines, in consultation with the Secretary of the United States Treasury, to be financial in nature or incidental to a financial activity. “Complementary activities” are activities that the FRB determines upon application to be complementary to a financial activity and that do not pose a substantial risk to the safety or soundness of depository institutions or the financial system generally. In order to exercise the full benefits of its status as a bank holding company and a financial holding company, Comerica and each of its depository institution subsidiaries must be considered “well capitalized” and “well managed.” If at any time a financial holding company or any subsidiary bank is not considered “well capitalized” or “well managed” under applicable regulatory standards, the law and the FRB limit its ability to conduct the broader financial activities permissible for financial holding companies, and impose limitations or conditions on its conduct or activities or those of its bank and non-bank affiliates. If the deficiencies persist, the FRB could order the financial holding company to divest any subsidiary bank or to cease engaging in any activities permissible for financial holding companies that are not permissible for bank holding companies, or the financial holding company could elect to conform its non-banking activities to those permissible for a bank holding company that is not also a financial holding company. Adverse examinations at the bank-level also could increase costs and limit activities and growth of Comerica Bank & Trust, National Association