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November 26, 2002 |
Quarterly Banking Profile Commercial Banking Performance, Third Quarter 2002 Gains on securities sales keep earnings near record level... Weakness in overseas operations limits industry profits... Margins improve at community banks, decline at larger institutions... Strong mortgage demand fuels growth in loans... Asset-quality problems continue to grow at large banks |
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A Closer Look at Bank Stocks Learn the secrets of investing in this often-intimidating sector. |
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A Short Leash on Risk Bankers all across the country are beginning to tighten up their lending practices as a response to the regulatory pressure they are under to keep lending plain, conservative, and firmly under control. |
FDIC FYI
June 3, 2002 |
Favorable Interest-Rate Environment Drives Record First-Quarter Bank Earnings Commercial banks earned a record $21.7 billion in the first quarter of 2002, besting the previous quarterly earnings record set in the first quarter of 2001 by 9.6 percent. |
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FYI: An Update on Emerging Issues in Banking Assessing the banking industry's exposure to an implicit government guarantee of gses |
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February 2004
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In Land of Rising Sun, Rays of Hope for Struggling Bank Sector Though Japan's banks have been ailing for more than a decade, the sector's pulse is strengthening. Signs of change are everywhere, as the four megabanks reported second-half 2003 profits for the first time in 20 years. Can the recovery last? |
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Pedaling As Fast As They Can Companies will now need to work harder for credit, as banks' markedly different posture on lending money is affecting businesses of all stripes -- not just those in default. |
FDIC FYI
November 4, 2003
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Economic Conditions and Emerging Risks in Banking The two main economic concerns of the past two years, a lack of new jobs and lackluster business investment, finally appear poised to subside. |
FDIC FYI
April 11, 2002 |
Economic Conditions and Emerging Risks in Banking The report describes recent signs of a consumer-led recovery in the U.S. economy that may have begun in the first quarter... |
OCC Bulletin
May 22, 2002 |
Unsafe and Unsound Investment Portfolio Practices Description: Supplemental Guidance This bulletin alerts banks to the potential risk to future earnings and capital from poor investment decisions made at the current low level of interest rates... |
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Outlook for M&A: 2009 Interestingly, for some banks, M&A will be a viable -- even attractive -- strategic option. |
FDIC FYI
January 14, 2003 |
Basel and the Evolution of Capital Regulation: Moving Forward, Looking Back How much capital is enough? How bank regulators have answered this question during the post World War II period has been shaped by two contending strands of thought. |
OCC Bulletin
July 1, 2004 |
Embedded Options and Long-Term Interest Rate Risk This bulletin alerts banks to the importance of measuring the cash flow and valuation risks for assets and liabilities with embedded options. |
Bank Director
4th Quarter 2009
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Capital Management: Banking's Trickiest Juggling Act More than ever, directors are keeping their eyes fixed on the balance sheet, in an effort to reach perfect harmony between regulatory soundness and profitability. |
FDIC FYI
October 28, 2003 |
The Changing Paradigm in Commercial Real Estate A transcript of a roundtable discussion with commercial real estate and commercial mortgage-backed securities experts |
The Motley Fool
February 23, 2007
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OCC Bulletin
April 4, 2001 |
Leveraged Financing Guidance for bankers and examiners that more fully describes supervisory expectations regarding sound practices for leveraged financing activities. |
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1st Quarter 2009
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The Market for M&A in 2009: What Happens Next? With billions in government-spawned capital poised to funnel through the financial industry pipelines, many deal watchers are wondering whether such financing will pop the cork on a flood of deals -- or stall potential transactions until the outlook is clearer. |
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2007
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Small Banks, Big Risks In the new era of commercial real estate lending, federal regulators are pressuring even the smallest banks to upgrade their portfolio analysis capabilities to avoid the pitfalls of past downturns. |
FDIC FYI
March 13, 2002 |
Banks and Thrifts Post Record Earnings, Insurance Funds Slide Full-year 2001 financial data for all FDIC-insured institutions, released today in the Quarterly Banking Profile, depict record bank and thrift earnings even as the reserve ratios of the FDIC insurance funds continue to slide... |
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May 2010 |
Be Patient and Let Margins Expand with Time Here are three actions banks can-and should-take today to ensure stronger margins in the future. |
FDIC FYI
August 29, 2002 |
Strong Bank Earnings Reflect Nature of U.S. Downturn Second quarter 2002 earnings results for commercial banks show that the benefits of a steep yield curve continue to outweigh the costs of higher credit losses. |
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Return of the Fortress Balance Sheet Since traditional noncumulative perpetual preferred stock is treated as Tier 1 capital, it should be considered to improve capital strength. |
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September 2005
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Designing an [Optimal ] Capital Structure Nimble capital management can help non-Basel II-adopting banks level the competitive playing field. |
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John R. Engen |
M&A in 2010: The Year of the No-frill Deal There are pockets of opportunity everywhere this year, as most analysts and dealmakers agree. But you won't find anyone more risk averse than bankers these days. |
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December 1, 2007
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Subprime: Tentacles of a Crisis The mortgage market turbulence is as much about the breakdown of the structure of U.S. financial markets as it is about bad debt. |
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June 1, 2005
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Why Liquidity Should Help You Sleep Better There is no crystal ball that can predict the next lending squeeze, or if one will even occur. What is certain however, is that greater liquidity in the secondary market for commercial real estate loans is an important safety valve for the entire industry. |
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May 1, 2008
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A Structured Finance Hangover At the height of the commercial real estate market's historic up cycle in 1999, collateralized debt obligations emerged on the scene. |
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October 1, 2007
Ryan & Hahn |
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Financial Planning
December 1, 2007
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The Credit Crunch A Wall Streeter explains what happened and how the financial markets got into their current state. |
U.S. Banker
March 2008
John Adams |
Another Lending Sector Teeters on the Edge Like a bad virus, the subprime-mortgage-driven plague is spreading from one sector of banking to another. |
FDIC FYI
May 18, 2004 |
An Update on Emerging Issues in Banking Trends in Community Banking... The Declining Number of U.S. Banking Organizations: Will the Trend Continue?... Community Banks: Their Recent Past, Current Performance, and Future Prospects... |
U.S. Banker
August 2008
John Engen |
The Other Shoe... A commercial real estate fallout promises to be far more devastating than the subprime crisis, because this market is so much more pervasive - a linchpin business for so many institutions, including most community banks. |
FDIC FYI
April 25, 2002 |
Refinancing Waves Alter the Landscape for Mortgage Specialists The current interest rate environment affords institutions the opportunity to correct material asset/liability mismatches before the rate cycle turns and risk reduction strategies become less effective or more expensive to execute... |
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The Perfect Storm The IMF's Chief Economist explained in a November 2008 lecture how a crisis that began in mortgage-backed securities turned into the worst recession since the 1930s. |
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September 8, 2008
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Turning Japanese Japan's post-bubble policies produced a "lost decade." So why is President Obama emulating them? |
The Motley Fool
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Securitization Simplified Securitization is complicated, but understanding the mechanics will help you evaluate many financial companies. Here is a brief primer on collateralized debt obligations. |
FDIC FYI
February 22, 2006
Nathan Powell |
What the Yield Curve Does (and Doesn't) Tell Us Regardless of the slope of the existing yield curve -- positive, flat, or negative -- bankers will benefit from strategies designed to cope with the uncertainty of changing interest rates. |
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Bottleneck While driven by fundamental weakness in U.S. real estate, in particular subprime loans, the current liquidity crisis has become a general lack of confidence in banking and financial institutions globally. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 29, 2008
Martha Lagace |
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel Dean Jay O. Light and a group of Harvard Business School faculty explored the origins and possible outcomes of the U.S. financial crisis at a recent "Turmoil on the Street" panel. |
FDIC FYI
September 17, 2003
Susan Burhouse |
Evaluating the Consumer Lending Revolution Consumer balance sheets have become stretched by large amounts of new consumer and mortgage debt. This rapid increase in consumer spending and borrowing raises important questions about the sustainability of current debt loads and the vulnerability of the consumer sector to economic shocks. |
U.S. Banker
March 2009
Eisen & Gage |
Community Bank Capital an Investor's Sanctuary Nearly all publicly traded financial services companies have seen their stocks pummeled in the last year, but a case could be made that many community banks are being unfairly punished. |
FDIC FYI
March 23, 2006 |
Scenarios for the Next U.S. Recession. A string of positive reports on the U.S. economy and banking industry has led some analysts to ask -- How long can these good times last? |
CFO
March 1, 2009
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The Big Freeze CFOs hope government intervention will soon thaw frozen credit markets. That's not likely. |
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Lessons Learned Can a new look at data prevent the commercial real estate market from repeating past mistakes? |
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November 2006
John Engen |
Reality Check The banking industry has never been more profitable, but with the yield curve inverted and consumer lending stalled, and an economic slowdown in the works, the winning streak looks to be in jeopardy. Are banks ready - and will more CEOs opt to sell out? |
CFO
September 1, 2003
Hilary Rosenberg |
Compromising Positions Will credit derivatives encourage more lending, or will they harm the interests of borrowers? |
