The Institutional Risk Analyst

New York | The Federal Open Market Committee cut the target for short-term funds another quarter point last night, raising the question...

New York | In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we ponder how the actions or inaction of policy makers can create systemic...

Orlando | This week The Institutional Risk Analyst is participating in the Information Exchange sponsored by Black Knight, Inc. (BKI),...

La Jolla | This week The Institutional Risk Analyst is in La Jolla for The Chairman's Conference of The California Mortgage Bankers...

New York | We had a great trip last week, participating in Ellie Mae’s (ELLI) Experience 2019 and surveying the rich (and water sodden)...

Richmond | The 10 year Treasury bond peaked in yield at just shy of 3.25% around Thanksgiving. Since then, the world’s most important...

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...

New York | This past week, readers of The Institutional Risk Analyst awoke to see that banking exemplar Bank of the Ozarks (OZK) had...

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%...

New York | None other than Warren Buffett of investment fame started off the week complaining to Becky Quick of CNBC that there’s not...

"Al", retired Wells Fargo stagecoach pony New York | Wall Street more than bounced last week as the secular shortage of stocks quickly...

Austin | Last week we heard optimistic noises coming from some of the top executives in the world of mortgage finance at the...

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...

Since the November 2016 election, large cap financials have moved sharply higher, in the case of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) up almost 60%....

This week brings the start of Q1 2017 earnings for many banks, large and small. In order to better inform the subsequent...