The Institutional Risk Analyst

Interest rates are starting to be very positive, and bank deposit rates are barely moving, so pretense of fintech as bank killer is over

Why did Elon Musk ever pretend that he was able to acquire TWTR, a transaction the US government would never allow.

As a result of the adoption of "artificial intelligence," the 21st Century investor is mostly a victim in waiting.

If investors and partner banks don’t want to buy UPST loans at current market rates, then the game is over in an originate to sell model

Q: What do Elon Musk and Masayoshi Son have in common? Gigantic margin loans...

ICE buying the revenue streams represented by BKI is a big bet on yesterday, not a bold initiative to change the mortgage industry

Take the financials and add some unicorn dust in terms of innovation to the mix and perhaps a double-digit PE ratio for PYPL makes sense.

Who is going to acquire and restructure Blend Labs (BLND) before this newbie-fintech-something runs out of cash?

UPST has seen its valuation cut by 60% since March of last year, when its common equity traded at a mere 31x book value.

SI’s management team is taking advantage of the narrative in Washington, which is that stable coins will be a bank only product

If you consider QE “stimulus” inflationary, then Fed policy actually accelerated inflation in the November-January period.

Bottom line, when a bank seems to be doing much better than other banks, there is usually a reason and that reason is almost always bad

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

WISE is a play on the relentless advance of technology that lowers costs and eventually forces change in the legacy world of banking and pay

Is BLND worth more than RKT, or entrenched data monopolies and solution providers such as BKI or even CLGX?