The Institutional Risk Analyst

SOFI is up almost 300% while the Bitcoin futures traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are up less than 100%.  Below we provide some thoughts on the banking group as we head into September. 

If we told you that large cap financials are outperforming both the S&P 500 and bitcoin over the past month, what would you say? 

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.

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

A number of readers have asked us to talk about the winners and losers among large banks in the current interest rate environment.

While the progress in machine learning is impressive, horsepower in terms of computational capacity does not translate into intelligence.