The Institutional Risk Analyst

The summer of 2020 is all about picking winners and losers in the COVID19 lottery

Q2 2020 bank earnings will be "dread man, truly dread"...

This situation creates political risk for Chairman Powell and the Federal Reserve System...

So how big is the impending commercial real estate bust in the US?

Look for banks to continue to climb higher as investors cannot help but be impressed by a steepening yield curve.

Stick with dread for now. We see a second credit tsunami approaching on the horizon.

Rather than asking some bureaucrat in Washington, let’s let the market decide.

Numbers define value, enable commerce and compensate for work.

Jonathan a keen judge of the real estate market environment and the economy.

In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we speak with Amy Brandt, President and CEO of Docutech, which was acquired by First...

The present primary dealer system is a relic of the past when Treasury securities were paper documents....

We anticipate that net loss rates will rise quickly from the historic lows seen over the past several years to and even exceeding 100% loss

Just as last summer we called the problems brewing in the short-term money markets, now we put down a marker on bank credit....

There is nothing really new under the sun when it comes to technology, only new packaging and hype in the world of media and investments.

“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Irving Fisher October 1929 This Thursday The IRA’s Christopher...

In the mid 2000s, just before the financial crisis began, US banks were reporting credit metrics for all asset classes in loan portfolios...