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- French Bank Liquidity Improves But Outlook Uncertain
- Research Recap submits: French bank liquidity is much improved from a year ago when the credit crisis began, and credit ratings remain stable after initial downgrades, but the worsening economy and continued financial market distress are clouding the outlook, said Fitch Ratings Service in a report this week....
- External links 2008-10-24
- Impact of Lehman Failure on CDS Market Less Than Feared
- Research Recap submits: The credit default swaps market fared batter than expected in the wake of the failure of Lehman Brothers (LEHMQ.PK), according to a survey by Moody’s. However, Moody’s still sees the possible failure or failures of other large CDS market participants as a continuing source of systemic...
- External links 2008-10-30
- Goldman Far Outperforms Morgan Stanley in 2008 - Moody's
- Research Recap submits: It hasn’t been a good week for investment banks turned bank holding companies Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS). Both reported their first quarterly losses as public companies this week. And Moody’s Investors Service cut both companies’ ratings on non-FDIC-insured debt one...
- External links 2008-12-19
- Citigroup: Bowing to the Inevitable
- Research Recap submits: Citigroup’s (NYSE:C) move to spin off its Smith Barney brokerage unit into a joint venture with Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE:MS) wealth management business is widely seen as bowing to the inevitable: the dismantling of the financial hypermarket that was the brainchild of former CEO Sandy Weill....
- External links 2009-01-14
- GSE Debt Still a Good Bet, With or Without Explicit Guarantee
- Research Recap submits: Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE debt obligations still lack an explicit guarantee from the U.S. government, but Fitch Ratings says that’s a technicality, and it predicts the government sponsored enterprises’ senior and subordinated debt obligations “will be fully supported.” How does Fitch...
- External links 2009-02-25
- RBS: A Royal Mess
- Research Recap submits: There’s something about the “Royal” moniker that implies solidity in an institution. No more. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s (NYSE: RBS) record loss of £24 billion marks a new low in the demise of this once widely respected bank. As Credit Writedowns points...
- External links 2009-02-26
- U.S. Banks Log Profits, But Credit Quality a Concern
- Research Recap submits: Bank of America BAC is the latest U.S. banking giant to report a first quarter profit, but CEO Ken Lewis warns the improvement doesn’t mean an end to economic challenges. We understand that we continue to face extremely difficult challenges primarily from deteriorating...
- External links 2009-04-20
- General Growth Properties: Trouble at the Malls?
- Research Recap submits: Commercial real estate continues to be a hot topic among visitors to Research Recap. And while there’s a general consensus that times are bad, there’s disagreement on how bad and whether they are bad enough to prompt widespread downgrades and defaults. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
- External links 2009-04-23
- Moody?s Publishes Components of Junk Bond Liquidity Ratings
- Research Recap submits: In an effort to improve ratings transparency, Moody’s has begun publishing the four component scores that make up its Speculative Grade Liquidity (SGL) ratings for non-financial corporate issuers. Moody’s has tabulated SGL component scores since it first introduced liquidity ratings in 2002, but...
- External links 2009-04-28
- U.S. Banks to Lose or Write Down $470B Through 2010 - Moody's
- Research Recap submits: Moody’s says both the US banking industry rating outlook and the industry’s broader fundamental credit outlook continue to be negative because of the sharp economic recession that is cutting deeply into US bank balance sheets. Moody’s states that it expects US rated banks will...
- External links 2009-06-03
- Rise in U.S. Credit Card Delinquencies May Be Peaking
- Research Recap submits: The rise in US credit card delinquencies may be peaking as the rate of unemployment growth slows, CreditSights says in a new report. While charge-offs have been accelerating, the rises in delinquencies in credit card ABS have been slowing in recent months. This slowdown...
- External links 2009-06-09
- AIG: Nothin' from Nothin' Leaves Nothin'
- Research Recap submits: Suggestions today that AIG’s equity value may be zero should come as no surprise to anyone who has read Michel Lewis’s account in Vanity Fair of how the firm’s Financial Products group dug itself such a big hole. Lewis skewers former FP group head Joe...
- External links 2009-07-10
- CIT Group Ratings Downgraded as Bankruptcy Looms
- Research Recap submits: CreditSights Tuesday downgraded CIT Group (NYSE: CIT) as it questioned whether the company has a viable business model to survive long-term, even if it seeks bankruptcy protection, as reported in today’s Wall Street Journal. The WSJ also said Moody’s downgraded CIT by four notches...
- External links 2009-07-14
- Goldman Sachs: The Squid and the Whale of a Quarter
- Research Recap submits: Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) Tuesday threw a giant slab of raw meat (filet mignon, no doubt) to the “vampire squid” conspiracy theorists, who now appear to include Eliot Spitzer in their number. However hard-earned Goldman’s blockbuster quarterly profits were, you’d think they might want to hold...
- External links 2009-07-15
- Derivatives Reform to Hurt Bank Profits
- Research Recap submits: Proposed modest changes to the regulatory framework for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives could limit the contribution such transactions can make to future bank earnings, but these concerns are unlikely to carry the day when measured against the benefit of appreciably reducing counterparty risk for standardized transactions,...
- External links 2009-07-21
- Ratings: Would More Competition Improve Quality?
- Research Recap submits: On the heels of calls for increased competition as part of the solution to improved financial regulation, it is worth looking at an updated version of a Harvard paper arguing that competition has actually had a negative impact on the quality of the credit...
- External links 2009-07-21
- Commercial Loan Losses Cast Shadow Over Regional Banks
- Research Recap submits: Excerpted from Rising Commercial Loan Losses Cast A Long Shadow Over U.S. Banks Despite some hopeful signs of relief for U.S. banks in second-quarter 2009, the next several quarters likely will continue to be a struggle, especially for small regional institutions, Standard &...
- External links 2009-08-12
- High Leverage May Lead Moody's to Downgrade Some REITs
- Research Recap submits: Differences in leverage as measured by the current market value of a real estate portfolio versus its book value may lead Moody’s to consider a small number of rating downgrades among U.S. REITs. In a new report, Moody’s says it has identified a number of...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Negative Equity Not a Big Factor in Mortgage Re-Defaults
- Research Recap submits: CreditSights looks at US mortgage modification programs in an analysis carried out with ICP Advisory and Solutions. Key findings: by Research Recap
- External links 2009-08-24
- U.S. Regional Banks See Further CRE Pain
- Research Recap submits: Both PNC and SunTrust expect a continued sluggish banking environment with specific mounting weakness in commercial real estate. Regional banks addressed their commercial real estate exposure in presentations this morning at BarCap’s Global Financial Services Conference: by Research Recap
- External links 2009-09-15
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