It doesn’t make a whole lot of intuitive sense, on its face. The investment
banks are up to their eyeballs in structured products and quantitative strategies,
while the big global universal banks are heavily diversified among different
products and countries. Yet it’s the latter which are making
headlines today: both Citigroup [...]
Yesterday’s surprisingly bad news out of Citibank (C) and then UBS (UBS) sent us
back to the research archives looking for information about the
quality of Banks earnings.
As we noted last week, much of the Brokers’ gains were fictitious.
It turned out that a decrease in the value of the B/D’s own debt
was offset [...]
The rally that began in the U.S. Monday continued in Asia Tuesday, with some indices reaching record levels. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index (+3.9%) outpaced the rest of the indices and finished at a record close. Korea’s Kospi Composite (+2.6%), helped by enthusiasm over a summit between North and South Korea, finished with a record [...]
TD Bank Financial Group has agreed to acquire Commerce Bancorp in a 75% stock and 25% cash deal valued at US$8.5 billion. Commerce shareholders stand to receive 0.4142 shares of TD Bank common stock and $10.50 in cash, for each share of Commerce. This values Commerce at $42.37/share based on TD’s Monday closing price, representing [...]
Following up on last week’s hard-to-believe Bear Stearns/Buffett story, I happened across an interesting blog the other day: News Visuals.
Their methodology uses the engine from intellectspace.com to look at the inter-relationships between the various executives and Boards of Directors between firms.
Its really quite a fascinating application.
Really interesting stuff. These guys go straight to the [...]
Let’s
take a look at banks, balance sheets credit card growth and other things
through the eyes of Minyan Peter, who “helped build and ultimately ran
a Wall Street asset-backed securities business and was treasurer of a
top credit card company and treasurer of one of the largest banks in
the Midwest.” Many snips of wisdom from Peter follow.
A [...]
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There is an article about the potential danger of USB drives in the July 2007 issue of Bank Systems & Technology. While they discuss the lack of security precautions that are taken by companies on this issue, I couldn’t help but notice that iPods and other MP3 players were not mentioned. Personally, I [...]
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has launched HelpWithMyBank.gov, which provides assistance to customers of national banks. This begs the question, if banks are supposedly so focused on quality customer service, why is there a need for this site? After spending a few minutes on the site, I saw a [...]
Over on InfoWorld, Roger Grimes talked about his experience when his bank called to offer him a new service. After going through the sales spiel, the sales rep then asked him to confirm his account information, billing address and SSN. Understandably, he refused to give out the information, but asked if the sales [...]