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Operating Segments
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Operating Segments Operating Segments
 
Truist operates and measures business activity across three segments: Consumer Banking and Wealth, Corporate and Commercial Banking, and Insurance Holdings, with functional activities included in Other, Treasury, and Corporate. The Company's business segment structure is based on the manner in which financial information is evaluated by management as well as the products and services provided or the type of client served.
Effective at the close of the Merger, several business activities were realigned within the segments in order to better serve the Truist strategic vision. Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, LLC, BB&T Commercial Corporate Banking and Equipment and Government Finance have moved from the heritage Financial Services and Commercial Finance segment to the new Corporate and Commercial Banking segment. Additionally, Sterling Capital, BB&T Securities and Wealth and Retirement Services have moved from Financial Services and Commercial Finance to Wealth, which is now included in the broader Consumer Banking and Wealth segment. Refer to "Note 2. Business Combinations" for additional information related to the Merger.

Consumer Banking and Wealth

The CB&W segment is made up of five primary businesses:

Retail Community Banking provides services to individuals and business banking clients through an extensive network of traditional and in-store branches, ATMs, digital banking and through client care call centers. Financial products and services offered to individuals and small business clients include deposits and payments, loans and various fee-based services. Consumer Banking also serves as an entry point for clients and provides services for other businesses.
NCF&P provides a comprehensive set of technology-enabled lending solutions to individuals and small businesses through several national channels including LightStream, Sheffield, Truist Equipment Capital and certain FinTech partnerships. NCF&P also provides merchant services and payment processing solutions to business clients in the community bank.
Wealth provides a full array of wealth management products and professional services to individuals and institutional clients, including loans, deposits, brokerage, professional investment advisory and trust services to clients seeking active management of their financial resources. Institutional clients are served by the Institutional Investment Solutions business. Discount/online and full service brokerage products are offered to individual clients; additionally, investment advisory products and services are offered to
clients through an SEC registered investment advisor. Wealth also includes GenSpring Family Office Advisory Services, LLC, which provides family office solutions to clients and their families to help them manage and sustain wealth across multiple generations, including family meeting facilitation, consolidated reporting, expense management, specialty asset management and business transition advice, as well as other wealth management disciplines.
Mortgage Banking offers residential mortgage products nationally through its retail and correspondent channels, the internet and by telephone. These products are either sold in the secondary market, typically with servicing rights retained, or held in the Company’s loan portfolio. Mortgage Banking also services loans held in the Company’s loan portfolio as well as those held by third-party investors. Mortgage also includes Mortgage Warehouse Lending, which provides short-term lending solutions to finance first-lien residential mortgage LHFS by independent mortgage companies.
Dealer Retail Services originates loans to individuals on a prime and nonprime basis for the purchase of automobiles. Such loans are originated on an indirect basis through approved franchised and independent automobile dealers throughout the Truist market area and nationally through Regional Acceptance Corporation. Additionally, Dealer Retail Services originates loans for the purchase of boats and other recreational vehicles through dealers in Truist’s market area.

Corporate and Commercial Banking

The C&CB segment is made up of four primary businesses and the Treasury Solutions product group:

Corporate and Investment Banking delivers a comprehensive range of strategic advisory, capital raising, risk management, financing, liquidity and investment solutions, with the goal of serving the needs of both public and private companies in the C&CB segment. Investment Banking and Corporate Banking teams within CIB serve clients across the nation, offering a full suite of traditional banking and investment banking products and services. Investment Banking serves select industry segments including consumer and healthcare, energy, technology, financial services, industrials, and media and communications. Corporate Banking serves clients across diversified industry sectors based on size, complexity, and frequency of capital markets issuance.
Commercial Community Banking offers an array of traditional banking products, including lending, cash management and investment banking solutions via CIB to commercial clients (generally clients with revenues between $5 million and $250 million), including not-for-profit organizations, governmental entities, healthcare and aging services and auto dealer financing (floor plan inventory financing). Local teams deliver these solutions along with the Company's industry expertise to commercial clients to help them achieve smart growth.
Commercial Real Estate provides a range of credit and deposit services as well as fee-based product offerings to privately held developers, operators, and investors in commercial real estate properties through its National Banking Division. Additionally, Commercial Real Estate offers tailored financing and equity investment solutions for community development and affordable housing projects, with particular expertise in Low Income Housing Tax Credits and New Market Tax Credits. Real Estate Corporate and Investment Banking targets relationships with publicly-traded and privately owned REITs.
Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, LLC is a fully integrated commercial mortgage investment banking company that originates commercial and multi-family real estate loans, services loan portfolios and provides asset and portfolio management as well as real estate brokerage services. Additionally, the Investor Services Group offers loan administration, special servicing, valuation and advisory services to third-party clients.
Treasury Solutions provides business clients in the C&CB and CB&W segments with services required to manage their payments and receipts, combined with the ability to manage and optimize their deposits across all aspects of their business. Treasury Solutions operates all electronic and paper payment types, including card, wire transfer, ACH, check and cash. It also provides clients the means to manage their accounts electronically online, both domestically and internationally.

Insurance Holdings

Truist’s IH segment is one of the largest insurance agency / brokerage networks in the world, providing property and casualty, employee benefits and life insurance to businesses and individuals. It also provides small business and corporate services, such as workers compensation and professional liability, as well as surety coverage and title insurance. IH also includes Prime Rate Premium Finance Corporation, which includes AFCO Credit Corporation and CAFO Holding Company, insurance premium finance subsidiaries that provide funding to businesses in the United States and Canada.

Other, Treasury & Corporate

OT&C includes management of the Company’s investment securities portfolio, long-term debt, derivative instruments used for balance sheet hedging, short-term liquidity and funding activities, balance sheet risk management and most real estate assets, as well as the Company's functional activities such as marketing, finance, enterprise risk, legal, enterprise technology and executive leadership, among others. Additionally, OT&C houses intercompany eliminations, including intersegment net referral fees and residual interest rate risk after segment allocations have taken place.
Truist emphasizes revenue growth by focusing on client service, sales effectiveness and relationship management along with an organizational focus on referring clients between businesses. The objective is to provide Truist’s entire suite of products to our clients with the end goal of providing our clients the best financial experience in the marketplace. To promote revenue growth, revenues of certain products and services are reflected in the results of the segment providing those products and services and are also allocated to CB&W and C&CB. These allocated revenues between segments are reflected as net referral fees in noninterest income and eliminated in OT&C.

The segment results are presented based on internal management methodologies that were designed to support these strategic objectives. Unlike financial accounting, there is no comprehensive authoritative body of guidance for management accounting equivalent to GAAP. The performance of the segments is not comparable with Truist’s consolidated results or with similar information presented by any other financial institution. Additionally, because of the interrelationships between the various segments, the information presented is not indicative of how the segments would perform if they operated as independent entities.

Because business segment results are presented based on management accounting practices, the transition to the consolidated results prepared under U.S. GAAP creates certain differences, which are reflected as residuals in OT&C. Business segment reporting conventions include, but are not limited to, the items as detailed below.

Segment net interest income reflects matched maturity funds transfer pricing, which ascribes credits or charges based on the economic value or cost created by assets and liabilities of each segment. Residual differences between these credits and charges are captured in OT&C.

Noninterest income includes federal and state tax credits that are grossed up on a pre-tax equivalent basis, related primarily to certain community development investments. Corporate expense allocations, including overhead or functional expenses that are not directly charged to the segments, are allocated to segments based on various drivers (number of equivalent employees, number of accounts, square footage assigned, net revenue, etc.). Recoveries for these allocations are reported in OT&C.

Provision for credit losses represents net charge-offs by segment combined with an allocation to the segments for the provision attributable to each segment’s quarterly change in the ALLL. Provision for income taxes is calculated using a blended income tax rate for each segment and includes reversals of the noninterest income tax adjustments described above. The difference between the calculated provision for income taxes at the segment level and the consolidated provision for income taxes is reported in OT&C.

The application and development of management reporting methodologies is an active process and undergoes periodic enhancements. The implementation of these enhancements to the internal management reporting methodology may materially affect the results disclosed for each segment, with no impact on consolidated results. If significant changes to management reporting methodologies take place, the impact of these changes is quantified and prior period information is revised, when practicable.
The following table presents results by segment:
Year Ended December 31,
(Dollars in millions)
CB&WC&CBIH
201920182017201920182017201920182017
Net interest income (expense)$3,633  $3,410  $3,401  $3,153  $2,723  $2,332  $146  $119  $98  
Net intersegment interest income (expense)913  559  374  (393) (265)  (43) (32) (21) 
Segment net interest income4,546  3,969  3,775  2,760  2,458  2,341  103  87  77  
Allocated provision for credit losses513  506  504  102  111  49     
Segment net interest income after provision4,033  3,463  3,271  2,658  2,347  2,292  94  84  74  
Noninterest income2,313  2,152  2,109  1,086  925  911  2,112  1,872  1,778  
Noninterest expense4,086  3,637  3,671  1,499  1,309  1,462  1,777  1,615  1,593  
Income (loss) before income taxes2,260  1,978  1,709  2,245  1,963  1,741  429  341  259  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes548  490  639  404  417  571  110  88  98  
Segment net income (loss)$1,712  $1,488  $1,070  $1,841  $1,546  $1,170  $319  $253  $161  
Identifiable assets (period end)$170,059  $74,974  $72,311  $185,859  $86,005  $83,290  $7,325  $6,622  $6,024  
 OT&C (1)Total
 201920182017201920182017
Net interest income (expense)$381  $430  $704  $7,313  $6,682  $6,535  
Net intersegment interest income (expense)(477) (262) (362) —  —  —  
Segment net interest income(96) 168  342  7,313  6,682  6,535  
Allocated provision for credit losses(9) (54) (9) 615  566  547  
Segment net interest income after provision(87) 222  351  6,698  6,116  5,988  
Noninterest income(256) (73) (16) 5,255  4,876  4,782  
Noninterest expense572  371  718  7,934  6,932  7,444  
Income (loss) before income taxes(915) (222) (383) 4,019  4,060  3,326  
Provision (benefit) for income taxes(280) (192) (397) 782  803  911  
Segment net income (loss)$(635) $(30) $14  $3,237  $3,257  $2,415  
Identifiable assets (period end)$109,835  $58,096  $60,017  $473,078  $225,697  $221,642  
(1) Includes financial data from business units below the quantitative and qualitative thresholds requiring disclosure.