What is Truist? It isn’t the name of an artificial sweetener or a misspelled word in Shakespearean English, as some on the internet have posited. It’s the new name of the nation’s sixth-largest retail bank. BB&T Corp. and SunTrust Banks Inc., which announced plans to merge in February, rebranded the combined entity on Wednesday as Truist...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 13, 2019 22:18 UTC