Citigroup: Negative Assessment; FOMC: Liquidity vs the VIX
New York | Fed Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed this week that the FOMC is unlikely to make any further reductions in interest rates for...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 31, 20195 min read
Repo Madness: The Rest of the Story
New York | The Federal Open Market Committee cut the target for short-term funds another quarter point last night, raising the question...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 14, 20196 min read
Third Quarter Bank Earnings: 4 Charts
New York | This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we look at Q3 earnings for financials from 10,000 feet. We do this through four...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Sep 11, 20195 min read
Bank Earnings: Lower for Longer
New York | This week we posted the Q3 2019 edition of The IRA Bank Book, our quarterly review of the US banking industry. And to...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Apr 14, 20194 min read
Funding Headwinds Grow for US Banks
Orlando | This week The Institutional Risk Analyst is participating in the Information Exchange sponsored by Black Knight, Inc. (BKI),...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Apr 8, 20194 min read
Forget Everything You Heard About Rising Interest Rates
La Jolla | This week The Institutional Risk Analyst is in La Jolla for The Chairman's Conference of The California Mortgage Bankers...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Mar 17, 20198 min read
HELOCs and Transformational REPO
New York | We had a great trip last week, participating in Ellie Mae’s (ELLI) Experience 2019 and surveying the rich (and water sodden)...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Feb 10, 20197 min read
The New Confidence
New York | This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we note a couple of reader comments. First, we’ve been accused of having a...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Nov 4, 20185 min read
Profile: The Challenge for Deutsche Bank
New York | When we first heard news reports about a new investor in Deutsche Bank (DB), we of course assumed that this meant the purchase...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 23, 20186 min read
Leveraged Loans and Liquidity Risk
New York | This past week, readers of The Institutional Risk Analyst awoke to see that banking exemplar Bank of the Ozarks (OZK) had...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Aug 7, 20186 min read
Which Are the Best Performing US Banks?
New York | Which are the best performing banks in the US? Equity returns for the entire industry averaged 11.4% in Q1’18, up from 9.6%...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Feb 26, 20184 min read
Large Cap Financials & Asset Inflation
New York | None other than Warren Buffett of investment fame started off the week complaining to Becky Quick of CNBC that there’s not...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Feb 21, 20187 min read
Wells Fargo & Co Gets No Respect
"Al", retired Wells Fargo stagecoach pony New York | Wall Street more than bounced last week as the secular shortage of stocks quickly...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Sep 11, 20175 min read
Goldman Sachs & the Volcker Rule
Austin | Last week we heard optimistic noises coming from some of the top executives in the world of mortgage finance at the...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Jul 18, 20175 min read
Bank Earnings & Fed Chairs
New York | Earlier this week we appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” to talk about bank earnings and the Fed. The results from the top-four...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
May 3, 20173 min read
Dollar SuperCycle Ends
What do the US residential housing market, the stock market and the dollar all have in common? All of these markets represent bubbles...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Apr 12, 20174 min read
How Much Lower Will Bank Stocks Fall?
Since the November 2016 election, large cap financials have moved sharply higher, in the case of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) up almost 60%....
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Apr 9, 20179 min read
For Big Banks, Profits Not Capital is the Issue
This week brings the start of Q1 2017 earnings for many banks, large and small. In order to better inform the subsequent...
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