The Institutional Risk Analyst

The proliferation of low- or no-cost coin systems is ultimately negative for established players in nonbank finance and payments, including the major card issuers, as we discuss below.  Still worried about interchange fees?

At one point last year, HOOD was up several hundred percent, but has given back much of those gains. Yet the leaders of our finance group have outperformed the broad market.

In dollar terms, the moves in 2023 were tiny vs the post March rally in 2020.

When will Disney decide to sell some or all of its streaming operations to keep the lights on at its theme parks?

We think that the whole banking industry could be driven into multiple periods of loss as they divert income to loss provisions. 

Now let’s take a look at how some members of the banking and fintech sector are doing in the first month of 2024.

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

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...

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

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

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

CEO Patrick Collison is guiding investors and the media to a $200 million profit in 2023. Selective disclosure??

Despite all the hyperbole, the great crypto fraud was a small game, like the party poker that many crypto enthusiasts share in common

With the Fed doubling down on rate increases, the pressure on all manner of nonbank finance companies and fintech platforms is growing.