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times leverage ratio (down from 2.7 The telecom giant's improving leverage ratio supports its excellent bond ratings (A-/BBB+/Baa1). That caused concerns that Verizon and its peers might have to spend money to remedy the problem and cover future legal liabilities. Verizon ended the second quarter with a 2.6
Investmentbanking saw a nice rebound this quarter. billion in investmentbanking fees and grew 35% from the first-quarter 2023. In addition, our results reflect the benefits of investments beta, our middle-market investmentbanking teams and dual-coverage teams. We delivered nearly $1.6
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The strong year-over-year fee performance was led by a 15% improvement in investment in brokerage services, mostly in our global wealth management business. We are focused on driving market share in all our businesses, investing in technology to further enhance the customer experience, and continue to increase our efficiency.
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Our customer investments team, what we call Merrill Edge, crossed a new milestone this quarter and now sits in excess of $518 billion in balances. Investmentbanking gained share of industry revenue in 2024. Investmentbanking grew 44%. The good news is we created operating leverage in the quarter.
We also drove stronger operating leverage, while continuing to invest in our content and technology capabilities. percentage points and grew net cash flow from operating activities by 54%, highlighting the operational leverage in our model. We made significant progress in driving profitability, improving operating leverage by 1.8
You heard me say this before, but creating this market will take some time, but we're seeing good traction in building the ecosystem, which will ultimately be crucial to drive the next step of digitalization of enterprise and society, leveraging the capabilities of their mobile networks. Thanks, Borje. Andreas, your line is now open.
As we entered this year, we did so as a leaner, more focused organization with a relentless commitment to leveraging our decade-long investment in artificial intelligence. We have launched new products and are optimizing our go-to-market approaches to maximize the impact of our AI technologies married with our product strategy.
So, in Q2, we continue to work with our customers and focus on leveraging our leading technology as well as optimizing our business through our strategic initiatives, which, of course, includes our cost reduction actions that we have taken. We continue to leverage our technology leadership while prudently managing our business.
We saw revenue growth and positive operating leverage for the firm and across all five businesses. Overall revenues grew by 3% ex-divestitures, with each of our core businesses delivering growth and positive operating leverage. It was a particularly pleasing quarter in banking. Today, we reported net income of $3.2 year to date.
billion or 12% driven by higher firmwide asset management and InvestmentBanking fees as well as lower net investment securities losses. Next, the Corporate & InvestmentBank on Page 5. InvestmentBanking revenue of $2 billion was up 27% year on year. Moving to the Commercial Bank on Page 6.
So, our strategy is focused on leveraging these opportunities to drive growth in the mobile networks market. So, in Q3, the global RAN market remained challenged as we have said; however, we continue to leverage our technology leadership, and we have seen contract wins in India and Vietnam, among others. Andreas, your line is open.
All of this was helped by the years of Bank of America's assiduous dedication to responsible growth. We achieved 170 basis points of operating leverage in 2023, as heightened quarterly expense levels were driven lower throughout the year, even as the investments in growth continued. And our supplemental leverage ratio was 6.1%
Revenues were up 4% overall as well as up in each of our five core businesses, where all but one had positive operating leverage. The steps we're taking to simplify our organization, right-size businesses such as markets and wealth, and reduce stranded costs are beginning to take hold, even as we increase investment in our transformation.
The rebound in Banking gained speed during the quarter, led by near-record levels of investment-grade debt issuance as improved market conditions enables issuers to pull forward activity. Our strong performance in both DCM and ECM drove InvestmentBanking revenue growth of 35% and overall banking revenue growth of 49%.
But you mentioned their equities trading, which was really strong, their investmentbanking fee growth, which was 29% year over year, which came from a very low bar, but now more companies are going public, more M&A activities happening, and the banks are a big beneficiary of that. That's pretty much across the board.
We also expanded Zelman's investmentbanking capabilities into the commercial market in 2023. And in the fourth quarter, the investmentbanking team closed three transactions, albeit all in the single-family sector, that boosted revenues and expanded the W&D brand significantly. Those are the challenges.
We've also been investing in the corporate investmentbank. CIB revenue grew 26% from a year ago, and our investmentbanking and trading market shares increased. For commercial clients, we continued to invest in order to have the right people and the right capabilities to better penetrate our customer base.
We created a strategic partnership with Centerbridge Partners and introduced Overland Advisors to better service our commercial banking customers with a direct lending product. We have targeted our investmentbanking capabilities toward our commercial banking clients. The opportunity remains significant.
We named Barry Simmons as the new head of national sales and wealth and investment management. As the slide shows, our office loans at the end of the second quarter were primarily in corporate investmentbanking and that is also where we had the most nonaccrual loans in the highest level of allowance for credit losses.
We're already seeing users leverage S&P Spark Assist to optimize code, rewrite configuration files for software migrations and summarize complex documents. Leveraging LLM from multiple sources allows us to benefit from the rapid innovation taking place across the technology ecosystem without being locked into a single vendor.
billion of investment with approximately $1.6 billion of cash and equity and only about $200 million of incremental debt, achieving an equity to debt funding ratio on that investment activity of 8-to-1, demonstrating our commitment to our long-range net leverage target of 5.0 times within our target leverage range.
The good news is that we're seeing positive trends at distribution points where we have fully converted our customers to Smart Straw Next Generation and expect this conversion to drive significant long-term gains as we fully leverage our premium formats. Sales of homecare and cleaning products in the Americas and U.K.
In banking, the momentum in investment-grade debt has spread into other DCM products. But the long-awaited rebound in investmentbanking has yet to materialize. And it was a disappointing quarter in terms of both the wallet and our own performance, with investmentbanking revenues down 24%.
And as part of a seven-figure fourth quarter deal, they plan to deploy Communications Mining in their corporate investmentbanking, commercial banking, and HR departments. As a result, they expanded their UiPath deployment in the quarter as they look to accelerate and scale their automation program across the bank.
Most notably, we're executing our 3x3 plan to leverage our risk capital and human capital structure and capability, embed the Aon client leadership model across the firm, and utilize Aon Business Services to set a new standard of innovation in client service. Jimmy Bhullar -- JPMorgan Chase and Company -- Analyst Hey. Good morning.
We have taken some short-term pain in Canada to drive a very significant long-term gain as we fully leverage our Smart Straw and EZ Reach formats. We also know that use of data analytics and automated tools leveraging data is increasing and can be a real enabler for the business. We are making progress on the sale of our U.S.
Beyond chatbots, the company is leveraging Elastic's hybrid search capabilities, combining keyword and semantic search for broader applications. And I'm pleased to say that we are seeing significant momentum from customers who are leveraging these to migrate off of legacy offerings onto our platform.
The contract with AT&T is a key proof point demonstrating how our technology is leveraged to advance the network architecture of the future and deliver a reduced total cost of ownership for our customers. Andreas Joelsson -- Carnegie InvestmentBank -- Analyst Good morning, everyone, and thank you for taking my question.
This helped drive investmentbanking revenue up 34%, albeit of a low base and a small wallet. We brought together the management of the investments, corporate, and commercial banks under one umbrella. Personal Banking was also up double digits at 13%. And finally, banking revenues.
The net result is that we will still ensure a sufficient scale of operation to maintain our very important recycling operations and to leverage off the recent Reldan acquisition. It's an opportunity to use this asset to build a uranium business leveraging of Cook's low technical risk development. Some milestones. at the top end.
Vale plays a leading role in the decarbonization journey by leveraging relevant actions to enable the energy transition. We are at the forefront of global decarbonization, leveraging relevant actions for the energy transition while driving local and regional development. These agreements fit perfectly into this context.
It is not monolithic and includes such varied enterprises as pension fund investment managers such as AIMCo , insurance companies, investmentbanks, broker dealers, hedge funds, mortgage investment companies – and still others. As a consequence, banks must submit to more stringent regulation.
million investmentbanking transaction. Total revenues for the segment declined 21% to $82 million, driven by lower investmentbanking revenues and a 30% decline in non-cash MSR revenues from GSE lending. But you can't do that at current leverage levels. These three transactions added about $0.45
In response to client demand and the opportunity, we're evolving to an organization that drives efficiency, operating leverage, and margin expansion to one that's also increasingly driving improved client service delivery and accelerating innovation at scale. So, that's on the risk capital side. Eric, do you want to add -- yeah.
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Each quarter, we've been highlighting just a few of the many ways we've been leveraging both traditional AI and generative AI within S&P Global. Within Mobility, we're leveraging GenAI and animation automation to embed the CARFAX Car Fox directly within the vehicle history reports that customers use. Thanks, David. Let me start.
Our 3x3 Plan is designed to meet these needs across the pillars of risk capital, human capital, Aon Client Leadership and Aon Business Services, leveraging our structure to unlock new integrated solutions to support our clients. Our recent client example highlights this opportunity across all three pillars of our plan.
We're also making progress on our integrated product road map, including evaluated pricing for LPs and GPs, leveraging MSCI's data, models, and research. So, it's really the structured products where the investmentbanks are building products for wealth distribution. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
At the same time, Emond was rising through the ranks at Scotiabank, spending four years as the investmentbank’s head of Quebec. Then he moved to Toronto to lead the bank’s entire Canadian corporate banking and global investmentbanking teams. Why not do both?
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million, lease liabilities of $582.9 million, equity accounted investments of $34.8 Overland expects to leverage Centerbridge’s recognized leadership as a private and alternative credit investor, with a seasoned investment team that has decades of experience creating innovative solutions and underwriting credit investments.
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