Repo Madness: The Rest of the Story
New York | The Federal Open Market Committee cut the target for short-term funds another quarter point last night, raising the question...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Jul 1, 2019
- 8 min
Deutsche Bank, GSEs & Systemic Risk
New York | In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we ponder how the actions or inaction of policy makers can create systemic...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 14, 2019
- 4 min
Funding Headwinds Grow for US Banks
Orlando | This week The Institutional Risk Analyst is participating in the Information Exchange sponsored by Black Knight, Inc. (BKI),...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 8, 2019
- 4 min
Forget Everything You Heard About Rising Interest Rates
La Jolla | This week The Institutional Risk Analyst is in La Jolla for The Chairman's Conference of The California Mortgage Bankers...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Mar 17, 2019
- 8 min
HELOCs and Transformational REPO
New York | We had a great trip last week, participating in Ellie Mae’s (ELLI) Experience 2019 and surveying the rich (and water sodden)...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Jan 9, 2019
- 7 min
Bank OZK: Fundamentals vs. Uncertainty
Richmond | The 10 year Treasury bond peaked in yield at just shy of 3.25% around Thanksgiving. Since then, the world’s most important...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Nov 4, 2018
- 5 min
Profile: The Challenge for Deutsche Bank
New York | When we first heard news reports about a new investor in Deutsche Bank (DB), we of course assumed that this meant the purchase...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Oct 23, 2018
- 6 min
Leveraged Loans and Liquidity Risk
New York | This past week, readers of The Institutional Risk Analyst awoke to see that banking exemplar Bank of the Ozarks (OZK) had...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Aug 7, 2018
- 6 min
Which Are the Best Performing US Banks?
New York | Which are the best performing banks in the US? Equity returns for the entire industry averaged 11.4% in Q1’18, up from 9.6%...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Feb 26, 2018
- 4 min
Large Cap Financials & Asset Inflation
New York | None other than Warren Buffett of investment fame started off the week complaining to Becky Quick of CNBC that there’s not...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Feb 21, 2018
- 7 min
Wells Fargo & Co Gets No Respect
"Al", retired Wells Fargo stagecoach pony New York | Wall Street more than bounced last week as the secular shortage of stocks quickly...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Sep 11, 2017
- 5 min
Goldman Sachs & the Volcker Rule
Austin | Last week we heard optimistic noises coming from some of the top executives in the world of mortgage finance at the...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Jul 18, 2017
- 5 min
Bank Earnings & Fed Chairs
New York | Earlier this week we appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” to talk about bank earnings and the Fed. The results from the top-four...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 12, 2017
- 4 min
How Much Lower Will Bank Stocks Fall?
Since the November 2016 election, large cap financials have moved sharply higher, in the case of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) up almost 60%....
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 9, 2017
- 9 min
For Big Banks, Profits Not Capital is the Issue
This week brings the start of Q1 2017 earnings for many banks, large and small. In order to better inform the subsequent...
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