Filings Radar

SEC 8-K and 6-K filings classified by Claude with reasoning, plus Form 4 insider transactions. Ingested from EDGAR’s filing stream in near-real time, reconciled overnight.

SCHWAB CHARLES CORP (SCHW-PJ)

CIK 0000316709 5 material events

Insider activity (SEC Form 4)

Open-market buys and sells only — the deliberate trades. Zero here doesn’t mean no filings: grants, option exercises and tax withholding (below) are compensation, not market trades.

Open-market · last 30 days: 0 buyers bought $0 7 sellers sold $51.0M
Open-market · last 90 days: 0 buyers bought $0 10 sellers sold $143.8M
InsiderRoleDateTransactionSharesValue
Hathi Neesha MD, Head Wealth Adv, Bnk, Tst 2026-09-01 Option exercise 10b5-1 3177 $165K
Hathi Neesha MD, Head Wealth Adv, Bnk, Tst 2026-09-01 Open-market sell 10b5-1 3177 $346K
Bettinger Walter W Co-Chairman, Director 2026-08-28 Option exercise 74388 $3.5M
Bettinger Walter W Co-Chairman, Director 2026-08-28 Open-market sell 74388 $8.3M
Hathi Neesha MD, Head Wealth Adv, Bnk, Tst 2026-08-28 Option exercise 10b5-1 3177 $165K
Hathi Neesha MD, Head Wealth Adv, Bnk, Tst 2026-08-28 Open-market sell 10b5-1 3177 $343K
Schwab Charles R. Co-Chairman, Director 2026-08-27 Gift 9300 $0
Schwab-Pomerantz Carolyn Director 2026-08-26 Open-market sell 9175 $1.0M
Bettinger Walter W Co-Chairman, Director 2026-08-24 Option exercise 176210 $8.2M
Bettinger Walter W Co-Chairman, Director 2026-08-24 Open-market sell 176210 $20.0M
Schwab Charles R. Co-Chairman, Director 2026-08-24 Open-market sell 117000 $13.2M
Schwab Charles R. Co-Chairman, Director 2026-08-18 Gift 54550 $0
Beatty Jonathan S MD, Head of Advisor Services 2026-08-17 Open-market sell 1000 $111K
Schwab Charles R. Co-Chairman, Director 2026-08-17 Gift 45500 $0
Craig Jonathan M. MD, Head of Retail Investing 2026-08-14 Option exercise 10b5-1 21866 $1.0M
Craig Jonathan M. MD, Head of Retail Investing 2026-08-14 Open-market sell 10b5-1 21866 $2.4M
Howard Dennis MD, Chief Tech, OPS & Data Off 2026-08-13 Open-market sell 10b5-1 2198 $242K
Schwab Charles R. Co-Chairman, Director 2026-08-12 Open-market sell 46410 $5.0M
Schwab Charles R. Co-Chairman, Director 2026-08-11 Open-market sell 46445 $5.0M
Murtagh Nigel J Chief Risk Officer 2026-08-10 Option exercise 10b5-1 24778 $1.2M
Most recent 20 reported transactions. Open-market buys (P) and sells (S) are the deliberate ones; grants and option exercises are compensation. Not investment advice.

Risk Radar (year-over-year Risk Factors)

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Fiscal period ending 2025-12-31 versus 2024-12-31view filing on EDGAR →

A substantive expansion into digital assets and cryptocurrency—combined with a surge in margin/options/futures activity and the Forge acquisition—has materially broadened the company's risk profile across five or more distinct themes simultaneously. Liquidity pressures are now explicitly tied to margin lending growth and higher-cost funding, while cybersecurity exposure has escalated to include AI-enabled fraud, insider misconduct, ransomware, and the irreversible-loss risks inherent to crypto custody. Regulatory uncertainty across the new digital asset business line, active investigations, and heightened litigation exposure compound an already widened operational and financial risk picture.

11 company-specific · 1 common-mode

Company-specific changes

New

New material business line with significant operational, custody, regulatory, and cybersecurity risks. Irreversible transactions and private-key loss create substantial financial exposure.

We intend to offer clients direct access to select digital assets, which exposes us to new and uncertain financial, operational, legal, and regulatory risks that could adversely affect our business…

New

New disclosure of material digital asset and cryptocurrency risks: client asset loss, third-party operational/compliance failures, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and regulatory uncertainty. Substantive business expansion into emerging asset class with novel risks.

THE CHARLES SCHWAB CORPORATION the permanent loss of digital assets with no practical means of recovery. Because blockchain technology is relatively new, it is difficult to predict how it might be…

Revised

New disclosure of interest-rate-driven risks to deposit fee revenue and client confidence via unrealized losses, plus IDA balance constraints limiting rate-response flexibility.

Significant interest rate changes could affect our profitability. The direction and level of interest rates are important factors in our earnings. A decline in interest rates may have a negative…

Revised

Added substantive new risks: third-party service provider outages, collateral custody failure, and COVID-19 pandemic impact precedent. Escalates operational dependency risk beyond intermediaries.

THE CHARLES SCHWAB CORPORATION health crises, political developments, war, international disputes, or for any other reason, and our inability to make alternative arrangements in a timely manner could…

Revised

New disclosure of materially increased margin/options/futures business and associated liquidity risk from trader client growth and market volatility.

THE CHARLES SCHWAB CORPORATION financial contracts and investing activities, and indirectly from the investing activities of certain of the proprietary funds that the Company sponsors. When clients…

Revised

New disclosure of digital assets/cryptocurrency trading plans and associated regulatory uncertainty. Material new business line with pending regulatory framework.

Legislation or changes in rules and regulations could negatively affect our business and financial results. New legislation, rules, regulations and guidance, or changes in the interpretation or…

Revised

Added specific reference to Forge acquisition, escalating from generic M&A risk to concrete transaction with integration and realization uncertainties.

Other Business Risks Potential strategic transactions could have a negative impact on our financial position. We evaluate potential strategic transactions, including business combinations…

Revised

Added explicit disclosure of margin lending surge and increased capital requirements as material liquidity risks, escalating prior generic language to specific operational pressures.

Liquidity Risk A significant decrease in our liquidity could negatively affect our business as well as reduce client confidence in us. Maintaining adequate liquidity is crucial to our business…

Revised

Removed specific FHLB advance mechanics and tangible capital requirements; added "increased levels" of higher-cost funding and regulatory requirements, escalating liquidity pressure disclosure.

THE CHARLES SCHWAB CORPORATION deposit additional funds. Clearing houses could also require additional funds from member firms if a clearing member defaults on its obligations to the clearing house…

Revised

Added explicit risks: data loss during decommissioning and ransom payments to threat actors. These represent newly disclosed, concrete cyber threats beyond prior boilerplate.

Operational Risk Security breaches of our systems, or those of our clients or third parties, may subject us to significant liability and damage our reputation. Our business involves the secure…

Revised

Added explicit disclosure of regulatory investigations and proceedings, and heightened emphasis on litigation risk exposure and unsuccessful defense outcomes.

THE CHARLES SCHWAB CORPORATION We are subject to litigation and regulatory investigations and proceedings and may not be successful in defending against claims or proceedings. The financial services…

Also disclosed — common-mode (AI cybersecurity escalation)
AI cybersecurity escalation Revised

Disclosure significantly expanded to include AI-enabled fraud techniques, employee insider misconduct, and reputational risk—substantive escalation of fraud threat severity and scope.

We may suffer financial loss from fraud and financial crime. The risk of fraud for financial institutions has significantly increased in recent years, in part because of the proliferation of new…

Material year-over-year changes to this company's Risk Factors (Item 1A), found by comparing each annual report to the prior year, judged for materiality, and classified as company-specific or common-mode against the cross-company catalog. Common-mode changes are the macro themes many companies disclose in common; they are collapsed above. A filing marked unchanged had no material change from the prior year; its summary describes the company's standing risks, which remain in force. Fiscal periods are the reporting period ends. Not investment advice.

Debt Issuance

8-K filed 2026-08-12 confidence 98% Item 8.01

Charles Schwab issued $2.6 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior notes ($1.25 billion due 2032 and $1.35 billion due 2037) with net proceeds of approximately $2.582 million. This is a material creation of direct financial obligations under a Senior Indenture, clearly fitting the debt_issuance category. The magnitude and terms are material to investors assessing the registrant's capital structure and financial position.

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Earnings release

8-K filed 2026-07-21 confidence 99% Item 2.02

Charles Schwab issued a press release on July 21, 2026 announcing its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, disclosing record quarterly revenue of $7.1 billion (up 21% YoY), net income of $2.8 billion, and diluted EPS of $1.54 (up 43% YoY). The filing explicitly states "On July 21, 2026, The Charles Schwab Corporation issued a press release announcing its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026" under Item 2.02, with the press release furnished as Exhibit 99.1. This is a standard quarterly earnings release with comprehensive financial statements and operating metrics.

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Debt Issuance

8-K filed 2026-06-29 confidence 98% Item 8.01

CSC issued $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.603% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2029, creating a new direct financial obligation. The disclosure includes the principal amount, interest rate, maturity date, net proceeds (~$995.5 million), underwriting agreement with Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, and the governing indenture documents. This is a material debt issuance under Item 2.03 (or disclosed under Item 8.01 as here), representing a significant capital-raising event for a major financial services company.

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Shareholder vote

8-K filed 2026-05-22 confidence 98% Item 5.07

This is a clear Item 5.07 disclosure of shareholder meeting results held on May 21, 2026. The filing reports voting outcomes on four proposals: election of four directors (all approved), ratification of Deloitte as independent auditors (approved), advisory vote on NEO compensation (approved), and a proposal to declassify the Board (not approved). The detailed vote tallies and outcomes are the core substance of the disclosure, making this unambiguously a shareholder_vote_results event that is material to investors assessing governance and board composition.

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Other material

8-K filed 2026-05-21 confidence 75% Item 8.01

Charles Schwab issued $2.25 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior notes ($1 billion at 4.744% due 2030 and $1.25 billion at 5.493% due 2037) with net proceeds of approximately $2.236 million. This is a material debt issuance that does not fit the dilutive_issuance category (which applies to equity securities) and is not a covenant breach, restatement, or other more specific event type. The disclosure of a substantial debt offering is material to investors assessing the registrant's capital structure and financial position.

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