Author: Vincent Ryan
CFO.com- Nio Trades Down After Upsized Equity Offering Prices at Discount
- Ally Financial’s Profit Drops by More Than Half
- Fed Clamps Down on Bank Capital Distributions
- U.S. Banks’ Profits Sink 69% to $18.5B in Q1
- W.Va. Bank Fails After Years of Financial Woes
- Fed Offers Liquidity to Foreign Central Banks
- Fed Loosens Examination Reins on Banks
- Square Analysts React to FDIC’s Conditional Banking License Approval
- Plan Now for an Orderly Transition from Libor
- Fed Adopts ‘Stress Capital Buffer’ for Big Banks
Category Archives: Bank balance sheets
Next financial crisis locales? Try China and India
As I wrote on CFO.com on Tuesday, China’s domestic banks may face problems during the “great moderation” of China’s economic growth. A recent S&P report said that the majority of China’s top banks, and many regional and national banks, “remain vulnerable … Continue reading
Anchor Comes Loose
What a week for Anchor Bancorp of Wisconsin. Its holding company declares bankruptcy, then the SEC comes out today with fraud charges against the CFO. (The case was settled.) A bad earnings report just added icing to the cake. Anchor … Continue reading
A Good Time to Borrow
Is there any end to banks’ easing of standards on business loans? Loan underwriting is getting pretty loose. The Federal Reserve’s Senior Loan Officer Survey for July shows banks easing standards (yet again) for industrial & commercial loans. The percentage … Continue reading
A bank is hiding inside your supply chain
My latest story on CFO.com: merchant banking physical commodities warehouses aluminum derivatives price manipulation Goldman Sachs.
Guess who created the latest derivative product
Yep, you guessed it, the federal government. The Financial Times reported today that Freddie Mac will sell a new kind of derivative that will get private investors to take on the risk of default of $22.5 billion in mortgages. From … Continue reading
Bank execs have a laugh at our expense
Listening to two Anglo Irish Bank execs joke about a 7 billion euro bailout is nauseating, but are we really surprised conversations like this went on? This recording of an internal phone conversation between the head of the bank’s capital … Continue reading
Capital question
Ok, so this new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is from, um, the Federal Reserve, but the results are still compelling: Our study indicates that the capital depletion during the recent financial crisis at large U.S. financial … Continue reading
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