Sober Look

The pace of US consumer credit expansion remains brisk. A quick look at consumer loan balances at large US commercial banks shows a spike ...

What is wrong with the international banking system? In order to maintain sustainable global economic growth, the banking system needs to ...

The US banking sector continues to outperform the broader market. Furthermore, for the first time this year, regional bank shares are outp...

While the media and politicians have been focused on large commercial banks and their activities, it is often the smaller US banks that co...

The latest statistics on small business lending show application approval rates rising at banks. It seems however that banks are still rel...

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The equity markets sold off after the close, with Morgan Stanley down 0.8% after hours and 3.5% correction intraday.  At least a portion o...

A recent article in the NYTimes had put a nice spin on the numerous failures of community banks: NYTimes : “People are angry with all the ...

We recently received a comment related to bank failures from someone pointing out that in Germany, with a population of some 82 million, the...

As a follow-up to our previous post , on failures of small banks, here is an interesting fact: small banks had significantly higher exposu...