The Institutional Risk Analyst

What does the upsurge in repo rates at the end of September suggest? None of the media who supposedly cover the Fed seem able to ask.

BLND is generating operating leverage via cost reductions, another way of saying that management is slowly winding up the business.

Notice that SQ co-founder Jack Dorsey styles himself as "block head" in the corp roster, a silly affectation that does not help the stock

The rotation away from institutional investors to retail funding source for the $1.7 trillion direct lending market is an ominous sign

When will Disney decide to sell some or all of its streaming operations to keep the lights on at its theme parks?

AXP is a premium stock that is best acquired when people think, incorrectly, that the world is ending.

Now let’s take a look at how some members of the banking and fintech sector are doing in the first month of 2024.

COIN has been helped by a groundswell of positive comment about crypto in 2023...

Regulatory skepticism about mortgage assets could effect financing rates for lenders, which means higher mortgage rates for consumers.

S&P was the first to call out the growing lack of fiscal discipline in Washington, downgrading Uncle Sam in 2011

If it’s artificial, then it’s not intelligent.

CEO Patrick Collison is guiding investors and the media to a $200 million profit in 2023. Selective disclosure??

In other words, those residual claims on crypto issuers that have been trading at pennies on the dollar may have no value whatsoever.

Many in the Buy Side chorus are looking forward to lower interest rates, but we are concerned that next year could really be about solvency

Despite all the hyperbole, the great crypto fraud was a small game, like the party poker that many crypto enthusiasts share in common

With the Fed doubling down on rate increases, the pressure on all manner of nonbank finance companies and fintech platforms is growing.

SWCH is performing above the rate of total returns for the data center REITs, according to Nareit

If the merger of Black Knight and Intercontinental Exchange goes through, the expanded ICE monopoly will simply give POS tools away for free

Interest rates are starting to be very positive, and bank deposit rates are barely moving, so pretense of fintech as bank killer is over

Why did Elon Musk ever pretend that he was able to acquire TWTR, a transaction the US government would never allow.