The Institutional Risk Analyst

You take the GSEs out of conservatorship, the big banks led by JPMorgan and U.S. Bancorp will own the conventional loan market

So what makes the WGA Bank Top 10 unique? Below we provide some quantitative and qualitative comments on each of the ten best US banks

If President Trump starts talking about fixing the federal budget deficit and redeveloping moribund urban real estate, he’d win in November

Sad to say, the business at NYCB is doing better than you'd think reading the bank's absurd disclosure.

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.

Look for falling rates sooner rather than later as the Fed and other agencies prepare to resolve more bank failures in 2024.

Is AFRM maturing from a hot new fintech entrant to a familiar face headed for a bank license?? Yikes.

Many participants in the equity markets are chewing on ski tips this holiday season after boldly predicting lower interest rates in 2024

The key term for risk managers and investors in 2024 remains unchanged from this year: Volatility.

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

Instead of seeking authority from Congress, Chairman Bernanke and other members of the FOMC merely turned on the public spigot.

We think that doing nothing is a fool’s trade, to be blunt, because the next Treasury refunding could pull market yields sharply higher.

One of the effects of QE has been making many banks and real estate investors insolvent, a precursor to debt defaults.

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

We look for modest rate cuts in 2025, followed by an equally modest boom in mortgage lending

The Q2 2023 disclosure for PACW suggests an institution that is bleeding cash and operating in extremis...

When you are in a big crowd, nothing else matters.

We continue to believe that combining Citi and GS may make sense in terms of consolidating two capital markets businesses

Our view is that China has been caught in a debt deflation for the past five years.