The Institutional Risk Analyst

When President Donald Trump says the Fed should cut interest rates, he is probably right – at least speaking from the perspective of the real estate markets.

Some of the largest banks by assets have dropped from the top quartile into the bottom half of the distribution for the top 100 banks

BMO arguably has the weakest reserve position among the large Canadian banks....

We remind readers that unrealized losses on securities are still a bigger problem for banks than CRE.

Only in the strange confines of Washington do you still find people who think that the federal budget deficit is not a problem.

Banks that do not aggressively reprice liabilities and assets as OZK did in Q1 2023 may be left behind.

How will this above-peer performer from Little Rock do in a Fed-induced recession that rivals 2008 in terms of market losses?

Which US financial will best weather the coming equity market correction?

If you back reserve releases out of Q1 2021 bank results, revenues and earnings were down and trend is headed lower due to QE

Significantly, OZK predicts shrinking CRE loan volumes in 2021....