The Institutional Risk Analyst

New York | Fed Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed this week that the FOMC is unlikely to make any further reductions in interest rates for...

New York | This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we look at Q3 earnings for financials from 10,000 feet. We do this through four...

New York | In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we ponder how the actions or inaction of policy makers can create systemic...

In this edition of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we announce the release of The IRA Bank Book for Q1 2019. We focus on some of the key...

April 9, 2017 | This week brings the start of Q1 2017 earnings for many banks, large and small. In order to better inform the subsequent prognostications, we borrow a line from the Passover Seder and ask: why is this bank different from all other banks? This question is not only important to understanding bank financial performance and earnings, but also to appreciate the subtleties of the evolving regulatory narrative in Washington around big banks and “too big to fail.”