The Institutional Risk Analyst

Repo Madness: The Rest of the Story

New York | The Federal Open Market Committee cut the target for short-term funds another quarter point last night, raising the question...

Oct 31, 20195 min read

Deutsche Bank, GSEs & Systemic Risk

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

Jul 1, 20198 min read

Funding Headwinds Grow for US Banks

Orlando | This week The Institutional Risk Analyst is participating in the Information Exchange sponsored by Black Knight, Inc. (BKI),...

Apr 14, 20194 min read

Forget Everything You Heard About Rising Interest Rates

La Jolla | This week The Institutional Risk Analyst is in La Jolla for The Chairman's Conference of The California Mortgage Bankers...

Apr 8, 20194 min read

HELOCs and Transformational REPO

New York | We had a great trip last week, participating in Ellie Mae’s (ELLI) Experience 2019 and surveying the rich (and water sodden)...

Mar 17, 20198 min read

Bank OZK: Fundamentals vs. Uncertainty

Richmond | The 10 year Treasury bond peaked in yield at just shy of 3.25% around Thanksgiving. Since then, the world’s most important...

Jan 9, 20197 min read

Profile: The Challenge for Deutsche Bank

New York | When we first heard news reports about a new investor in Deutsche Bank (DB), we of course assumed that this meant the purchase...

Nov 4, 20185 min read

Leveraged Loans and Liquidity Risk

New York | This past week, readers of The Institutional Risk Analyst awoke to see that banking exemplar Bank of the Ozarks (OZK) had...

Oct 23, 20186 min read

Which Are the Best Performing US Banks?

New York | Which are the best performing banks in the US? Equity returns for the entire industry averaged 11.4% in Q1’18, up from 9.6%...

Aug 7, 20186 min read

Large Cap Financials & Asset Inflation

New York | None other than Warren Buffett of investment fame started off the week complaining to Becky Quick of CNBC that there’s not...

Feb 26, 20184 min read

Wells Fargo & Co Gets No Respect

"Al", retired Wells Fargo stagecoach pony New York | Wall Street more than bounced last week as the secular shortage of stocks quickly...

Feb 21, 20187 min read

Goldman Sachs & the Volcker Rule

Austin | Last week we heard optimistic noises coming from some of the top executives in the world of mortgage finance at the...

Sep 11, 20175 min read

Bank Earnings & Fed Chairs

New York | Earlier this week we appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” to talk about bank earnings and the Fed. The results from the top-four...

Jul 18, 20175 min read

How Much Lower Will Bank Stocks Fall?

Since the November 2016 election, large cap financials have moved sharply higher, in the case of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) up almost 60%....

Apr 12, 20174 min read

For Big Banks, Profits Not Capital is the Issue

This week brings the start of Q1 2017 earnings for many banks, large and small. In order to better inform the subsequent...

Apr 9, 20179 min read