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- Barney Frank Aide Blasts Media Report Alleging Lack of Progress on Financial Reform
- A House Financial Services Committee staffer tees off on a story in the National Journal that criticizes the Obama Administration's financial reform package by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Goldman Sachs, Shareholders Just Can't Get Along
- Some Goldman Sachs shareholders are pressuring the investment bank to share the spoils by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Report: Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein Dead
- Celebrated investment banker and Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein, 61, is dead. by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Consumer Credit Losses at JPMorgan Chase Spell Danger for Weaker Banks
- It's another blow-out quarter for JPMorgan Chase. Yet rising losses in consumer lending augur badly for less healthy banks. The company announced third-quarter net income of $3.6 billion on revenue of $28.8 billion, compared with earnings of $527 million on sales of $16 billion in the year-ago...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- PR Man Richard Edelman Says Banks Have a Perception Problem. Wrong
- PR pro Richard Edelman is wrong in saying that better outreach will improve the financial industry's image by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Will Merchants and Consumers Get Relief From Soaring Credit Card Fees?
- Kathy and Warren Miller run a mom-and-pop grocery store in tiny Elmore, Vt. pictured at left, and soaring credit card fees are strangling it. In congressional testimony on Thursday, she said they make only two cents whenever a customer pays for a 99 cent bag of potato...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Michigan Fund Links Beaten Down Banks With Capital-Starved Businesses
- An innovative state program in Michigan is bridging the capital gap between small businesses and lenders, while also aiding local enterprises in sagging industries re-focus on growing sectors. Launched in May, the pilot Michigan Supplier Diversification Fund helps businesses secure bank loans by providing financial collateral. For...
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- Ailing Commercial Mortgage Securities Deepen CRE Woes
- The market for commercial mortgage-backed securities is in a funk, adding to problems for banks and investors by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Lending Rises Among Banks That Raised Government Funds
- As the credit markets were seizing up last fall, the Treasury Department established the so-called Capital Purchase Program to stimulate bank lending. Has it worked? About as well as could be expected. In the second quarter, banks that raised money through the program made an aggregate $287...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Chris Whalen to Bloomberg: Shut Up
- Chris Whalen says the FDIC's deposit insurance fund is in no danger of going kaput. The noted banking analyst sent an open letter responding to a piece today by Bloomberg columnist Jonathan Well saying the fund is "broke." Presumably, the message is also aimed at other credulous financial journos (of...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Citigroup Hit With Huge Credit Loss
- Although some news outlets are downplaying Citigroup's crummy quarterly results this morning, make no mistake -- they indicate a banking company in severe distress. Although Citi reported a net profit of $101 million, down from $4.2 billion in the previous quarter, for common shareholders the company lost...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Credit Quality Poses Biggest Threat to Banks
- FDIC chief Sheila Bair, OCC head John Dugan and other banking regulators were on Capitol Hill yesterday to update lawmakers on the state of the industry. As their testimony makes clear, the major concern for commercial banks and thrifts today is no longer liquidity, as in the early days of...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Bank of America Groans Under Souring Loans
- Bank of America's financial results suffer as more and more of its loans go bad by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- States Need Bigger Role in Halting Predatory Lending
- On January 7, 2004, the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency quietly staged a coup against the U.S. states. The move poked a gaping hole in the laws shielding consumers from predatory banking practices, and also coincided with a historic boom in subprime lending. Now we're paying the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Puerto Rico's Popular Suffering Island Fever
- As a pall redescends on much of the banking industry, Puerto Rico's Popular sinks further into distress. Nonperforming loans at the $24 billion-asset bank shot up to $2.2 billion in the third quarter, up an alarming 91 percent compared with the year-ago figure. Chargeoffs, or permanently soured...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Size Matters in Banking, and Big is Worse
- Columbia University finance professor Charles Calomiris makes a case in yesterday's WSJ about why the world needs giant banks. "There are sizable gains from retaining large, complex, global financial institutions," says Calomiris, an economist and the former co-director of the American Enterprise Institute's "Financial Deregulation Project." ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- When Paulson Met Goldman: From Russia With Love
- Still dubious that former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson showed favoritism toward Goldman Sachs, his former firm, during the financial crisis? Read on. In his new book, NYT reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, here via Felix Salmon, recounts Paulson's June 2008 meeting in Moscow with members of Goldman's board...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- An Immodest Proposal: Break Up the Banks
- Bank of England head Mervyn King has a solution for banks that have grown too big to fail: break them up. King, viewed within financial circles as an industry wise man, in a speech Tuesday in Edinburgh advocated separating banks' core businesses of lending and taking deposits...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Many Banks Unprepared for CRE Bust
- Anyone catch this scary stat in that WSJ story yesterday on the Fed's concerns about commercial real estate? In another sign that many U.S. financial institutions are inadequately protected against potential losses on commercial real-estate loans, banks with heavy exposure to such loans set aside just 38 cents in...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Banks Raise Off-Network ATM Fees
- Banks may be cutting the charges for overdrawing your checking account, but other fees are rising. The average cost to use an ATM at a bank other than your own is up more than 12 percent this year, to $2.22, according to Bankrate.com. On top of that charge, which is...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
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