The Institutional Risk Analyst

Most of the banks in our surveillance group are down between 10% and 30% so far this year, but none of these are particularly cheap as yet

The sharp rise in bank stocks in 2021 coincided with a surge in operating income due to COVID. Now we reverse that trend in 2022...

Will Fed Chairman Jay Powell fold in terms of further rate hikes if the S&P 500 falls 1,000 points in a day?

Valuations for the top five US banks are up slightly as Q1 2022 comes to an end

Why does this bank exist? What market does it serve and how will it grow in the future?

In the short-run rising interest rates and spreads will help bank earnings. But where is the next credit hot spot?

Many of the better managed financials that we track have become sellers of assets rather than buyers in the past several months.

Which US financial will best weather the coming equity market correction?

U.S. Bancorp, PNC and Truist Financial hold great value creation potential. But which is likely to realize this potential?

BAC is the worst performing bank in the top-five US commercial banks and often underperforms the average for Peer Group 1.

The combination of New York Community Bank and Flagstar creates an $85 billion bank with a national mortgage business

We continue to believe that issuers and funds should be accumulating conventional servicing. Rates bottomed in February...

US banks are running at income levels that are less than half of a year ago...

Significantly, OZK predicts shrinking CRE loan volumes in 2021....

We think that a strong case can be made that to enhance shareholder value, Moynihan and the BAC board ought to spin-off Merrill Lynch...

By acquiring the $100 billion asset BBVA USA, PNC is doing the Federal Reserve Board and other regulators a favor.

In this edition of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we assign a neutral risk rating to Wells Fargo & Co, the fourth largest US bank

There is a reason why the smart money on Wall Street is creating new strategies focused on non-performing loans...