Insurance brokerage fee income at bank holding companies fell to $6 billion in the first half, down 6% from $6.4 billion in the first half of 2008.
About 62% of the large, top-tier BHCs engaged in insurance brokerage activities during the first half, according to Michael White Associates, Radnor, Pa.
The top BHC insurance fee income generators were Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco, with $995 million in insurance brokerage fee income; Citigroup Inc., New York, $505 million; and BB&T Corp., Winston-Salem, N.C., with $479 million.
