The Institutional Risk Analyst

New York | This week we posted the Q3 2019 edition of The IRA Bank Book, our quarterly review of the US banking industry. And to celebrate and say thank you to our readers, we’ve put the new edition on sale for 40% off the regular list price of $99 through close of business this Friday, September 13, 2019. In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we take a modest victory lap for our 2017 call predicting that net interest income (NII) for the US banking industry would

New York | Last week Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed that the Federal Open Market Committee intends to keep raising short-term interest rates based upon the strength of the US economy. Powell gave no indication that he is concerned about the rapidly approaching inversion of the Treasury yield curve or what this portends for banks and leveraged investors of all stripes, including the housing finance sector. Also last week, the Federal Deposit Insurance