Truist’s reputation across their footprint is very poor. At some point a bank has to bring in and retain clients, and Truist is struggling with both. Decreasing the stock float with buybacks doesn’t change that reality.
Like the insurance sale, my opinion is this is yet another example of a buying time strategy. Keep accumulating those big executive salaries until (not if) the music finally stops. Otherwise, I thought the guiding purpose of the entire merger was to create a world-class technology bank, why aren’t they investing in that?
Well stated, @3pwz+1tfSp0bA.