The Institutional Risk Analyst

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...

Q2 2017 Bank Earnings Outlook

June 27, 2017 | Q: Are the annual stress tests good for bank stocks? See discussion on Yahoo Finance by clicking here (Interview starts at 12:30). Early in 2009, when the Federal Reserve Board began the annual exercise of “stress tests” for banks, confidence in the US financial institutions was nonexistent. The year before, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson almost single handedly cratered the US economy by embracing the creation of a “Super SIV” to buy bad assets from the