Picking Nits
Commentary on Global Risk and Financial Analysis
by Dennis Santiago
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Surveillance 101: Tracking bank degradations over time.
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Case Study: Alliance Bank of Culver City, California Alliance Bank was taken over by the FDIC last week and the assets sent to California B...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
IRA Bank Reports Timing - Why Mid-Quarter?
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IRA reports are based on FDIC CALL/TFR Reports. We need these more detailed reports to accomplish the level of bank safety and soundness a...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The thing about economics ...
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Humans are creatures of hope. It occurs to me that we place too much blind faith in things sometimes. Take economics. The thing about mac...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
TARP and Tangibles
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Here's something interesting. We computed the IRA Tangible Equity Capital Ratios for Largest Bank Holding Companies . The link takes y...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
IRA Bank Stress Ratings. Why Letter Grades?
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Professional bankers live and die by their CAMELS rating. The system uses a grading method ranging from 1 to 5 (1 = best) and is used as pa...
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