Picking Nits

As the 2012 political debates turn inevitably uglier and important national issues become ever more politicized, it's important to ressu...

Reprinted with permission. In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, IRA CEO Dennis Santiago talks about the implications of the r...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is the buck stops here office of U.S. bank regulation. Chairman Sheila Bair and company ar...

The only constant about risk analysis is that it is ever changing. It’s 2011 and make no mistake about it keeping up with understanding ban...

In our previous installment of IRA’s testing of U.S. XBRL filings we reported that one only needs the EDGAR Accession file to be able to pro...

By the second quarter of 2011, we will see another wave of machine-to-machine interactive financial data become available directly from the ...

I was on Canadian network BNN last week. It is earnings time for banks and as much as I loathe talking about economic safety and soundness...

In case you didn't see it, the last few days have seen some interesting things happen over in FDIC land. Last week, the FDIC took down t...

I decided this blog would be a good place to take on answering more questions. This week a compare and contrast request about what's be...

Here's the link again for the failed banks casualty list with the IRA forensics reports. http://us1.irabankratings.com/pub/Forensic.asp