The Institutional Risk Analyst

Margin credit in the US reached a new peak last week, FINRA reports. As of the second quarter of 2025, total margin loans in the United States reached a record high of $1.008 trillion vs just $850 billion in April. 

Whalen Global Advisors LLC (WGA) has published the latest edition of the WGA Top 50 Banks, the fifty top performing large commercial banks in the US. Drawn from the members of Peer Group 1 and other sources, WGA screens the group based upon five proprietary measures of financial and market performance.