The Institutional Risk Analyst

The market tantrum which began on Friday was largely over by the market close on the following Tuesday.

Direct lenders are the pawnbrokers of the 21st Century for subprime commercial borrowers, usually firms financed via leveraged buyouts.

The unrealized losses on COVID era securities remain a huge problem for banks large and small, especially if long-term interest rates rise

Big banks have big CRE exposures, too. So what drives this marvelous progression up the wall of worry?

If the run-of-the-mill Republic First interest rate mark is 13.3% of assets that is not just wiping out one bank’s 8% capital but also FDIC

The yield on BAC's $320 billion commercial and industrial (C&I) book was just 5.4% or more than 150bp below peer at year-end 2023.

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.